Post by Tiffanie Huynh on Jul 21, 2016 7:34:50 GMT
1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
When thinking of "artificial intelligence," it is easy to imagine a dystopia overrun with sentinels that have enslaved humans. However, in the text "Einstein's Wastebasket," the points that it makes actually change my perception on artificial intelligence. I do not think it will be a problem in the future, especially when you think of artificial intelligence as "The merging of artificial components to the human body may allow the paralyzed to walk (exoskeletons), the blind to see (artificial retinas), or the Alzheimer patient to remember (artificial hippocampus) (p.12). I had not considered artificial intelligence to mean an advanced extension of prosthetics for already existing biological humans, but merging artificial components to human deficiencies would be a powerful advancement in the medical industry.
Of course, abuse of artificial intelligence would pose a significant problem in the future, as well as monopolizations of the companies who produce artificial components. Those are conflicts that would be present in any subject matter, and preventative measures should be considered. Otherwise, as long as artificial intelligence remains in the field of prosthetics and the likes to aid humans who are less physically fortunate, it shouldn't be problematic to society. However, the problem would lie in an obsession in artificial intelligence, and those who take it too far by attempting to construct it without proper research and study, or constructing an artificial being, would pose a 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.
Technology has impacted my life in all areas that it has not impacted my parents. The easiest example is school, with the development of Internet and calculators (p. 23). Technology has dominated all of my interests: my favorite movies, television shows, video games, practically every source of media is possible because of technology (pp. 24-28). It is my main method of communication (telephone, e-mail, SMS), and technology has optimized my vehicle for me to drive to the places I need to get to. It has eradicated any need for me to read a map, or even a compass, since Global Positioning System was invented. Technology literally runs the city I live in, from the traffic lights to the power grid. It enables me to even take this course online. I feel lucky to have, in a sense, grown up with technology because it has been present all my life from landlines and giant box-lie MacIntosh computers that had dial-up internet (where you couldn't use the computer and the landline at the same time), to the iPhone I have today.
When thinking of "artificial intelligence," it is easy to imagine a dystopia overrun with sentinels that have enslaved humans. However, in the text "Einstein's Wastebasket," the points that it makes actually change my perception on artificial intelligence. I do not think it will be a problem in the future, especially when you think of artificial intelligence as "The merging of artificial components to the human body may allow the paralyzed to walk (exoskeletons), the blind to see (artificial retinas), or the Alzheimer patient to remember (artificial hippocampus) (p.12). I had not considered artificial intelligence to mean an advanced extension of prosthetics for already existing biological humans, but merging artificial components to human deficiencies would be a powerful advancement in the medical industry.
Of course, abuse of artificial intelligence would pose a significant problem in the future, as well as monopolizations of the companies who produce artificial components. Those are conflicts that would be present in any subject matter, and preventative measures should be considered. Otherwise, as long as artificial intelligence remains in the field of prosthetics and the likes to aid humans who are less physically fortunate, it shouldn't be problematic to society. However, the problem would lie in an obsession in artificial intelligence, and those who take it too far by attempting to construct it without proper research and study, or constructing an artificial being, would pose a 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.
Technology has impacted my life in all areas that it has not impacted my parents. The easiest example is school, with the development of Internet and calculators (p. 23). Technology has dominated all of my interests: my favorite movies, television shows, video games, practically every source of media is possible because of technology (pp. 24-28). It is my main method of communication (telephone, e-mail, SMS), and technology has optimized my vehicle for me to drive to the places I need to get to. It has eradicated any need for me to read a map, or even a compass, since Global Positioning System was invented. Technology literally runs the city I live in, from the traffic lights to the power grid. It enables me to even take this course online. I feel lucky to have, in a sense, grown up with technology because it has been present all my life from landlines and giant box-lie MacIntosh computers that had dial-up internet (where you couldn't use the computer and the landline at the same time), to the iPhone I have today.