My name is Jared I am an aspiring IT (Information Technology) student of RMIT (Royal Melbourne institute of Technology). I am starting my journey again into the world of education after the 2 years of breakup from the schooling system to set myself up for the future ahead (as well as the hindrance of covid). I moved away from my hometown after graduating year 12 to re-evaluate myself and what I wanted to do for the future. Using the extra free time, I had I began to pick up hobbies and interests i was not able to do from my old home. I went out to buy my first skateboard being unsure if I was going to be interested and invested enough to learn. The first few days were like learning to walk again with my balance completely off for every new movement I tried. Although I still feel like a novice to the sport and have much to learn, it has become the most peaceful, calming, and fun activities that I am dedicated to mastering. Skateboarding allowed me to strengthen my physical abilities, clear my mind when needed, as well as understanding how to express myself internally and externally. Using my love for skateboard art and the board itself to express myself within the sport by using the skills I had learned and the art I use to convey my love for the sport and emotions.
Introduction
Interests in IT
Prior to taking the course in IT I have always been into computers and machines alike. My interest started with me loving to play on my computer and desire to build my own. The recent developements of technology and their programs as well as many youtubers building machines or projects for pure entertainment enticed me to find my career in the broad category of the technological world. In that time, I managed to acquire a job at Jaycar. This allowed me to learn a lot about the how a lot of the technology worked as well as pushing my interests further. My work colleges would often put in their extra time and effort to make displays for our work at home or whenever they had a break. Their projects ranged from 3D (3 Dimensional) printed sculptures such as a picture that was viewable when a torch was placed behind, games made on a raspberry pi and many other projects for themselves including an automated door closer for when the door is left open. Understanding all the uses and the capability of coding pushed me to search for an education towards a career in IT. I searched for degrees in university or Tafe that could help me decide on a career or area of interest. I left a question for RMIT who quickly got back to me and helped me decide on a course to take between IT, cyber security, or both. As I was unsure on my abilities and time available, I chose IT for the possibility to move into cyber security in the future. I believe that taking this course will strengthen my understanding of IT, abilities, and show me more of the options available. I expect I will learn to use and understand coding languages and be able to use this course to grasp the inner workings of programs and their programming, so that I can understand how they work and to be able to make, improve or mimic my own programs.
Ideal Job
https://army.defencejobs.gov.au/jobs/cyber-analyst/
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The position I would like to get for the moment, which I find to be an excellent starting point to a larger career opportunity is a Cyber analyst for the army. The position will give me strict and proper teaching towards cyber security, which is a field that I find fascinating. I want to be able understand the reasons for security risks to our electronics and how to stop them as security and privacy are something I value for all who use any electronics. The job is also another pathway to potentially finding a better job using the qualifications and experience given by the army as a valuable reference. The role can be entered without any experience or qualifications other than being 17 or over. The role can be entered unqualified or fully qualified. Preference will be given towards people who display skill, interest and experience relevant to ICT (Information and Communications Technology). The job is still a competitive application process which will require adequate competencies for the role. The period for trainees will have a lower income within their salary from $51,277 P.A. (per Annum) Full trained employees will have a base salary of $77,138. The minimal education allowed is completed year 10 of high schooling English, mathematics, or an equivalent education. Currently I have no qualifications other than completed schooling that will allow me to go into the role fully qualified. I hope to have the basics of the training already completed before entering the role.This should improve my chances of getting the role over others. I plan at minimum to gain my basics degrees in IT and ICT and choose a direction to focus on in Cyber security. Otherwise, I may decide to study and improve on my skill before applying for the role.
Personal profile/Personality tests
results: ENFJ-T
These results show me that the actions and choices I have made can be made from my opinions of which is morally right or wrong. Shining light on the reasons for my decisions that I make and have made. They help me realise who I am as a person and what my strengths and weaknesses are. I plan to use this information to reflect and use to strengthen myself mentally and think rationally. I will be able to use the results to help distinguish a role for myself that I can use to strengthen myself in a team and the team as a whole. I will try to be a productive and a leading team member without trying to make all the decisions on a single standpoint basis. I will try to help me team on every level mathematics I can and make sure no one is left behind with an open mind to hear their opinions. I should be able to use this information to help form an efficient team that will have minimised Personality clashes so that we can work efficiently and positively. I should use my understanding to create a team who looks forward to succeeding and putting in their all with the ability to communicate. Though I must let those who I partner up with decide on who they want to work with without trying to lead them to my ideal unfairly.
Results: Visual Learner
I have always struggled to figure out what works best for me when learning as it felt as if I remembered and understood things with repetition and using different angles of understanding. The results allowed me to rethink about my own approach with more direct thinking. It helped me grasp my learning style as I approach understanding by visualising the process with a more physical understanding more than theoretical. I need to see a picture of something in my mind before fully coming to terms with an idea.
This will allow me to communicate with my team on my ability to understand what they are trying to relay to me. It will require me to ask my team members for more assistance when trying to understand information that is not laid out easily for me. The results allow me to try recognizing my teams individual learning styles so that I can communicate easier with my peers.
I will use my understanding of my learning abilities and comprehension of the different learning styles of others to try and form a team that will be able to communicate their ideas to try and suit everyone's learning styles while being able to use their own varied learning styles to form a team that can process information in a diverse productive manner.
Results: Self-awareness = 4/10 Self-Management= 3/10 Social-Awareness 7/10 Relationship management= 5/10
I generally thought I had a decent Emotional Intelligence, but the questions of test helped me reflect on the choices I would genuinely make more in-depth. As each section of the test scored lower than I placed myself, I realise that I must work on myself and try to control my emotions. Understanding my lack of self-awareness alerts me to try on reflect on my actions and thoughts before they are acted upon. I need to work on my self-confidence, abilities, and limitations so that I am not held back by myself. My low score of self-management helped me reflect on my self-control with displaying my emotions around others in a more thought-out approach. Aswell as my need organise myself myself so that I can push myself to get tasks and obstacles out of the way easier.
I will try to contain myself within a team so that I can be more understanding, to push myself out to be more involved and inclusive so that there are less personality clashes. I will try to work around my disagreements with more empathy and push for a more friendly environment.
I will try to form a team that is formed by everyone and easily sociable. So that everyone can express themselves so that it will be easier to understand everyone's emotions and views on topics when discussing them. Getting a team that will be easily social will help break down barriers and lead for more in-depth discussions.
Project Idea
A project I believe would be worth investing in is an application that will be used for people to talk with and will respond similar to a person. It will be used as a therapy app for people who cannot afford a therapist or do not want to see a therapist for other reasons. It other uses will be used to build basic communication skills for people who are introverted or shy. It will have a texting feature and a talking feature that will listen to a person and respond by talking in its own voice.
The projects goal is to assist people who are going through hardships, who need emotional support, or others who could use a hand improving their communication skills. Many people are unable to make friends or keep healthy relationships. I believe that an application that people can interact/ speak with will help their mental situation and help them out of depression. Many people desire to talk to others but due to anxiety or their mental situation decide not to. An application that people can talk with will allow people to break through barriers of their own design gain a sense of strength back in their lives. After using the application the should become more confident and encouraged to make relationships and communicate with others, giving them a more healthy and positive attitude.
The program will be an AI (artificial intelligence) able to act as a partner or friend depending on the users selection. For people who need assistance after a breakup or those who struggle to find a connection, the AI will allow them to recover and understand how to push forward properly. For others it will help them to improve on their conversation making skills so they can make friends or improve their situation with their friends. The AI will learn to respond to users through their conversations and improve upon its responses. The AI will be able to learn and understand conversations enough that it will be able to make emotional and impactful responses to the user. The AI will be able to respond to flirtatious comments or sad ones, giving advice that feels less scripted and more natural so the user can believe they are talking to a real person. The AI will be able to ask questions before the start of a conversation and be able to ask basic open-ended questions for the user to respond to. When responding to questions such as “How are you today?” the AI will respond similarly to “My day has been great. I went for a walk today to the beach and relaxed. How is your day?”
The AI will have multiple avatars that the user can select from, so the user can see who they are talking to with less feeling like a text or phone call. The user will be able to modify the clothing and general style of the model. This will allow them to feel more relatable with the avatar or be used as a creative outlet. The model when in speech mode will be able to express emotion and move its mouth as it talks. This will help give it a more natural feel to help comfort and relate when it speaks to the program. The user will be able to select from a variety of voices of that which the user desires.
The Program will also offer and recommend services such as suicide hotline, therapists, and other social services. The Program will have a quality response system that allows you to mark every comment the AI makes. The system will allow you to display how comments make you feel and will affect the way the AI responds, avoiding or including more responses similar. This system will educate the AI on its responses and allow the algorithm to improve upon itself. Some activities and surveys used in activities will be available on the application. These will be used to find interests, hobbies, likes, dislikes, and general conversation points. Other activities that will allow the user to gain communication skills.
The program will also have a function to select pre-made comments and emotional status icons so that the AI will be able to try and resolve your emotions or allow users to vent.
The program will require a highly advanced AI structure. Open AI GPT-3 would be an option to begin on the program though the program will most likely need to be made in-house by a development crew either from scratch or a combination of various open AI learning sources. The Application will be hosted on a server which will give it the processing power and memory used to work. Aswell as using the users' inputs to improve upon the design. The software will not be completed as there will always be need for improvements, though the goal of a realistic conversation with an AI is very achievable.
Crafting such a program will require specialists from many areas to achieve the goal. The roles will need individuals with diverse specialities or those who are competent in many. The project will need programmers, who are competent enough in computer sciences to code the project correctly. The roles and skills needed will be found in those with computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, and neuroscience degrees. The roles will be reasonable to fill though the learning process of creating an AI will be group effort all those roles. The teams skills will be first learnt by understanding other various AI programs. The hardware needed will be high-performance, high-end equipment that will be suitable to keep up and advance the development of the AI.
If the project is successful, it will allow us to help many who suffer from depression and other mentally situations. This will also allow for more investment and study into AI allowing for more investigation and understanding of the field. A successful approach to this project would undeniably affect many and pave the way for more AI based services designed to help people in need. The increasingly advancing field of AI has various areas that could eventually be integrated together with this research around push for more advanced and varied AI.