Post by ycheng50 on Mar 30, 2016 3:17:18 GMT
REQUIRED TWO ESSAY QUESTIONS: 1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future? 2. How has technology impacted your life? Be sure to support your answers with references to the required readings and films. Each answer should be at least 150 words.
1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a human created intelligence that mimics the think logics in human brain. Aside from its complexity to achieve, the idea was first introduced in the early 1930’s where the Bombe Machine was seen as the first model of AI and it helped alliance defeated Germany in WWII. Later computer simulated AI has been tremendously useful in replacing many services that once operated by men, and providing educations at rural places where resources are limited. Equipment installed with AI can perform dangerous tasks and reduce safety issues, and auto-pilot assault weapons are now mainly used in the battle field to avoid causalities.
Nevertheless, the most significant problem lies in AI is whether the machines will one day seek for their revolution and destroy mankind. In the movie, I, Robot, the human alike robots inherited human characteristics which include our weaknesses and aggression. In addition, in Digital Philosophy, our privacy may no longer exist due to the high dependency on machines, and unemployment will rise as labor force is fully replaced. Besides, as concerns from psychologists that overloaded by information may disturb our focuses, given our tendency in multitasking (Digital Philosophy 11). Personally, I am in great fear that we will one day by destroyed by our own creation.
2. How has technology impacted your life?
Technology has basically had done a facelift in my past life. I have been enjoying the convenience that comes along with advancement in technology. I cannot recall when was the last I had actual pen and paper in doing my assignments. Additionally without technology I couldn’t have taken this online course. The impacts of technology have been seamlessly penetrated in the each inch of my life, and it would be much more difficult in access paper print resources in public libraries than get all kinds of search results at fingertip of my newly bought iPhone 6s.
Nevertheless, the growing dependency on technology is sometimes fearsome. I’ve encountered the scenarios several times that I couldn’t recall any of the phone numbers in head when my battery was dead. Moreover, I’ve lost the ability to conduct raw researches when computers are not very helpful at that stage. As stated in the book, Digital Philosophy, “Books are a particular repository of information and trying such wisdom to one form only is to neglect the real project as hand which is that we wish to gain knowledge and wisdom.” If I keep counting my lift in a technology surrounded style, I might potentially surrender my born abilities in other approaches, and specifically tasks can only be done with bare hands and human brains.
Nowadays, you can see people on the street are either looking at their smart phones or fishing their pockets for them. We’ve given up our human-human interactions and technology is now the indispensable intermedia. The question is can technology really represent our genuine feelings toward the others? I cannot agree more with the quote stated in Digital Philosophy, “We are entertaining ourselves to death.” Technology plays an overwhelmingly dominance role in today’s life but after all we shall use it wisely and remember it’s just an aid not something can be totally relied on.
1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a human created intelligence that mimics the think logics in human brain. Aside from its complexity to achieve, the idea was first introduced in the early 1930’s where the Bombe Machine was seen as the first model of AI and it helped alliance defeated Germany in WWII. Later computer simulated AI has been tremendously useful in replacing many services that once operated by men, and providing educations at rural places where resources are limited. Equipment installed with AI can perform dangerous tasks and reduce safety issues, and auto-pilot assault weapons are now mainly used in the battle field to avoid causalities.
Nevertheless, the most significant problem lies in AI is whether the machines will one day seek for their revolution and destroy mankind. In the movie, I, Robot, the human alike robots inherited human characteristics which include our weaknesses and aggression. In addition, in Digital Philosophy, our privacy may no longer exist due to the high dependency on machines, and unemployment will rise as labor force is fully replaced. Besides, as concerns from psychologists that overloaded by information may disturb our focuses, given our tendency in multitasking (Digital Philosophy 11). Personally, I am in great fear that we will one day by destroyed by our own creation.
2. How has technology impacted your life?
Technology has basically had done a facelift in my past life. I have been enjoying the convenience that comes along with advancement in technology. I cannot recall when was the last I had actual pen and paper in doing my assignments. Additionally without technology I couldn’t have taken this online course. The impacts of technology have been seamlessly penetrated in the each inch of my life, and it would be much more difficult in access paper print resources in public libraries than get all kinds of search results at fingertip of my newly bought iPhone 6s.
Nevertheless, the growing dependency on technology is sometimes fearsome. I’ve encountered the scenarios several times that I couldn’t recall any of the phone numbers in head when my battery was dead. Moreover, I’ve lost the ability to conduct raw researches when computers are not very helpful at that stage. As stated in the book, Digital Philosophy, “Books are a particular repository of information and trying such wisdom to one form only is to neglect the real project as hand which is that we wish to gain knowledge and wisdom.” If I keep counting my lift in a technology surrounded style, I might potentially surrender my born abilities in other approaches, and specifically tasks can only be done with bare hands and human brains.
Nowadays, you can see people on the street are either looking at their smart phones or fishing their pockets for them. We’ve given up our human-human interactions and technology is now the indispensable intermedia. The question is can technology really represent our genuine feelings toward the others? I cannot agree more with the quote stated in Digital Philosophy, “We are entertaining ourselves to death.” Technology plays an overwhelmingly dominance role in today’s life but after all we shall use it wisely and remember it’s just an aid not something can be totally relied on.
