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+===== Manus Et Machina =====
+Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\
+Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 11:50 am – 13:05 pm
+----
+=== Foreword ===
+  * Attendance
+  * Reminder: GanttChart Update for meeting with Esteban on Thursday
+=== Case Study Presentations ===
+|10|The works of film director Alex Garland  |TUE, 10-17-17  |Junior  |
+|11|The production of the film //Ex Machina//   |TUE, 10-17-17  |Alemayehu  |
+**Food for thought:** How close comes the created AI – Ava – to a human? Explain the //Turing Test//. Would you consider an upgrade of Ava's personality as //killing her//? What would you do if you were: Caleb, Ava, Nathan, or Kyoko? Could you be Kyoko? Why did Caleb cut his arm? How can you know that we are not //Androids// or trapped in the //Matrix//? How would you describe Ava's intelligence? Do you think she just pretended to like Caleb so he would help her escape? About the production of the movie: explain the greenscreen, and how tracking markers work. What does post-production mean?
+=== Reading Assignment ===
+{{:mind_hacks.jpeg?200|}}
+Mind Hacks\\
+By Tom Stafford, Matt Webb\\
+Publisher : O'Reilly\\
+Pub Date : November 2004\\
+ISBN : 0-596-00779-5\\
+Pages : 394
+PDF available via NYU Classes.
+Please read the following:
+  * Preface
+  * the part about //Why Mind Hacks?//
+  * From first chapter 1: **Hack 11.**// Why People Don't Work Like Elevator Buttons//  and **Hack 12.**//Build Your Own Sensory Homunculus//.