I heard the following story from my friend.
His neighbor bought a new printer. When my friend switched on his computer, he realized he could see the printer via WiFi. The printer was coincidentally the same type printer to his own one. When he connected with the same factory password (default password), he knew he can use his neighbor's printer. In the midnight of that day, he printed out the following message as his joke.
I laughed this story. But I realized there are two truths in this story behind. They are:
Sometime we are just scared a new technology, or we just believe a new technology. Both has a problem. Our society heavily depends on technology. Therefore, I think we should not ignore how the technology works. We constantly gets some benefit from technology. However, when we get benefit, we often lose something. At least, we should learn what is benefit and what is lost. And hopefully we know the basics of the technology (not details). This story is an example: the environment could be safer if people aware a simple thing.
I would like to help this situation, one reason is maybe because I am an engineer. Last month, I teach programming to children (code.org, scratch). First I tried with 9 years old and 7 years old sister and brother. I enjoyed it with them. Then a 6 years old younger sister wants to do that. too. I thought it is impossible, since she is not yet in school. She still could not read. But, we just tried to do that. It turns out, she can write a program. It seems you only need to read and write numbers in this environment. I believe she understands the concept of loop and some other logical constructions.
I was surprised, teaching is fun.
His neighbor bought a new printer. When my friend switched on his computer, he realized he could see the printer via WiFi. The printer was coincidentally the same type printer to his own one. When he connected with the same factory password (default password), he knew he can use his neighbor's printer. In the midnight of that day, he printed out the following message as his joke.
``I am a printer.Next day, he found that the printer was in the trash bin of his apartment.
My AI aware myself.
Humans, behold and run!''
I laughed this story. But I realized there are two truths in this story behind. They are:
- Some people scared AI, even they don't know what it is.
- Some people aware that the computer security is important, yet they even don't set up the basics, like to set a new password.
Sometime we are just scared a new technology, or we just believe a new technology. Both has a problem. Our society heavily depends on technology. Therefore, I think we should not ignore how the technology works. We constantly gets some benefit from technology. However, when we get benefit, we often lose something. At least, we should learn what is benefit and what is lost. And hopefully we know the basics of the technology (not details). This story is an example: the environment could be safer if people aware a simple thing.
I would like to help this situation, one reason is maybe because I am an engineer. Last month, I teach programming to children (code.org, scratch). First I tried with 9 years old and 7 years old sister and brother. I enjoyed it with them. Then a 6 years old younger sister wants to do that. too. I thought it is impossible, since she is not yet in school. She still could not read. But, we just tried to do that. It turns out, she can write a program. It seems you only need to read and write numbers in this environment. I believe she understands the concept of loop and some other logical constructions.
I was surprised, teaching is fun.
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