The writing reflection for this week covers the lectures "Face-Off" and "Science Fiction". This reflection is due on 11/21 at 5:00pm.

Note that the course staff are looking for your own thoughts on these topics. Writing in the first person, taking divergent viewpoints, and bringing in ideas from outside of class are encouraged. Write as if you are targeting a public audience. Particularly insightful or convincingly contrarian statements might be shared with the entire class in lecture or in the course slack.

For this week's reflection, let's think a bit more about AI technologies designed to analyze the human face: 

1. The human face is the object of focus for a large number of AI technologies. Why is that the case? What is so special about the human face that necessitated the creation of so many algorithms to analyze it?   
2. Emotion recognition is a controversial AI technology that relies heavily on facial analysis. Assuming accurate algorithm performance, what socially positive applications can it be used in? Should we worry about end-users trusting these algorithms, even if they are performing as expected? 

Grading

Each reflection should be between 500 - 1000 words. It will be graded in terms of:

Does the reflection adequately address the prompt?

Does the reflection reference the readings and class discussions to support the writing?

Does the reflection exhibit thoughtfulness and creative expression?

Does the reflection utilize proper grammar and style?

Is the reflection an appropriate length?

Submission Instructions

• Prepare a doc in that folder named using this convention: lastname_firstname_duedate. Example: Swenor_Abby_112222
• The TAs will collect each assignment directly from your drive after it is due