Post by tracyorigel on Apr 9, 2016 7:49:20 GMT
1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
No, I don’t believe that artificial intelligence will become a significant problem in the future. Technology has advanced very far from where we were twenty years ago, and what we might have considered artificial intelligence then has changed in meaning presently. The depiction often painted in movies of artificial intelligence gaining sentience and eventually rebelling against humanity, while scary, to me it just seems unrealistic. Technology has done nothing but further our advancements in science, and it will continue to do so. In fact, without artificial intelligence scientific advancements could be placed on a halt or slowed considerably; the human brain can accomplish only so much, and I believe that artificial intelligence will only further our own accomplishments and make us want to do better. Certainly there are questions of risk, such as people being able to hack into artificial intelligence and perhaps bioengineer viruses or perhaps rig computer driven cars or even bypass secure servers and gain sensitive information; however, this problem is present today, but rather than take a step back, steps should be taken forward to mitigate those problems. Again, I will reiterate that I do not believe that artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future but a remedy to help us solve many problems we face today.
2. How has technology impacted your life?
If someone had walked up to twelve-year old me and said that in a few years I’d be able to hold a computer in the palm of my hand, I’d have called them crazy. How could someone take a hunk of machine and condense it into a small cube of wonder? Of course today it’s normal and not as interesting a topic as it was when it first came out, but I am still amazed by it. Here I have one device that holds several contacts, calendar dates, serves as an alarm, allows me to surf the web, and even makes available hundreds of books I have purchased through Kindle. It is extremely convenient and has certainly made my life a lot easier by being so readily available. But it isn’t just a cell phone that has amazed me, but personal computers. When I started high school, the only access to a computer were the ones available to use in the school library. Then a year later they became more affordable and I was able to purchase one, that same one I had in high school I still have—coupled with a motherboard, CPU, and OS upgrade of course. Having this type of technology has served me in a positive way, I can research items that weren’t readily available to me had I not had one. At a click of a button I can access online databases of scholarly works and books on several topics. I’m able to check up on my family if I find myself far from them, and I know they’ll be okay because of the technology we have today. It gives me peace of mind.
No, I don’t believe that artificial intelligence will become a significant problem in the future. Technology has advanced very far from where we were twenty years ago, and what we might have considered artificial intelligence then has changed in meaning presently. The depiction often painted in movies of artificial intelligence gaining sentience and eventually rebelling against humanity, while scary, to me it just seems unrealistic. Technology has done nothing but further our advancements in science, and it will continue to do so. In fact, without artificial intelligence scientific advancements could be placed on a halt or slowed considerably; the human brain can accomplish only so much, and I believe that artificial intelligence will only further our own accomplishments and make us want to do better. Certainly there are questions of risk, such as people being able to hack into artificial intelligence and perhaps bioengineer viruses or perhaps rig computer driven cars or even bypass secure servers and gain sensitive information; however, this problem is present today, but rather than take a step back, steps should be taken forward to mitigate those problems. Again, I will reiterate that I do not believe that artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future but a remedy to help us solve many problems we face today.
2. How has technology impacted your life?
If someone had walked up to twelve-year old me and said that in a few years I’d be able to hold a computer in the palm of my hand, I’d have called them crazy. How could someone take a hunk of machine and condense it into a small cube of wonder? Of course today it’s normal and not as interesting a topic as it was when it first came out, but I am still amazed by it. Here I have one device that holds several contacts, calendar dates, serves as an alarm, allows me to surf the web, and even makes available hundreds of books I have purchased through Kindle. It is extremely convenient and has certainly made my life a lot easier by being so readily available. But it isn’t just a cell phone that has amazed me, but personal computers. When I started high school, the only access to a computer were the ones available to use in the school library. Then a year later they became more affordable and I was able to purchase one, that same one I had in high school I still have—coupled with a motherboard, CPU, and OS upgrade of course. Having this type of technology has served me in a positive way, I can research items that weren’t readily available to me had I not had one. At a click of a button I can access online databases of scholarly works and books on several topics. I’m able to check up on my family if I find myself far from them, and I know they’ll be okay because of the technology we have today. It gives me peace of mind.
