Post by allexmac on Oct 4, 2016 3:04:24 GMT
Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
I believe artificial intelligence can pose a problem in the future. An example is in the YouTube video, Ray Kurzweil: The Coming Singularity. Kurzweil tells us how GNR (genetics, nanotechnology, robotics) technology that is used to help cure cancer and heart disease can also be used to harm us. He says, “it can also be used by a bioterrorist to reprogram a biological virus to be more deadly” (Big Think, 2009). It is pretty scare to know something that is created to help us can also be used to harm us. Another example how it can be a cause for concern is described in Einstein’s Wastebasket. Bostrom, author of Superintelligence: Path, Dangers, Strategies, tells us how in the near future, we will create a human form of artificial intelligence that can emulate human minds. It will have the ability for “a rapid cascade of recursive self-improvement cycles causing AI’s capability to soar” (Diem Lane, 33). This will cause a fast transition to superintelligence. And perhaps it can appear harmless and be working for humans, but it can also be intent on self-preservation and resource acquisition at the expense of its creators (Diem Lane, 33). Diem-Lane also tells us how there can be scenarios where if we stand in the superintelligence way, we can be eliminated. An example is when she says, “sending out mosquito-like robots with a deadly agent to target humans” (Diem Lane, 34).
How has technology impacted your life?
Technology is a big impact on my life. An example is the smart phone, it is ingrained in to our daily lives, I’m certain pretty much no one would leave home without one. It has become a necessity in the world we live in today. Like how Diem-Lane tells us in the Avatar Project, “Are we not intimately coupling more and more with computational intelligence, so much that we are forever tethered to our smart phones and other devices and we will not venture outwardly without them? Have we not created a digital cloud that follows stalks us wherever we go, responding to our moment-to-moment whims and needs?” (Diem-Lane 22). Another example in how it impacts my life is how I’m so enamored by my smart devices. That even when I’m with my friends and they are right next to me, I’m looking at my phone checking out social media, emails, or surfing the web. It seems like with technology we are becoming more isolated with our smart devices. Diem-Lane tells us if we are maybe becoming like the movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, “where we become zombie like creatures forever entranced by flickering screens of digital input?” (The Avatar Project, 22).
I believe artificial intelligence can pose a problem in the future. An example is in the YouTube video, Ray Kurzweil: The Coming Singularity. Kurzweil tells us how GNR (genetics, nanotechnology, robotics) technology that is used to help cure cancer and heart disease can also be used to harm us. He says, “it can also be used by a bioterrorist to reprogram a biological virus to be more deadly” (Big Think, 2009). It is pretty scare to know something that is created to help us can also be used to harm us. Another example how it can be a cause for concern is described in Einstein’s Wastebasket. Bostrom, author of Superintelligence: Path, Dangers, Strategies, tells us how in the near future, we will create a human form of artificial intelligence that can emulate human minds. It will have the ability for “a rapid cascade of recursive self-improvement cycles causing AI’s capability to soar” (Diem Lane, 33). This will cause a fast transition to superintelligence. And perhaps it can appear harmless and be working for humans, but it can also be intent on self-preservation and resource acquisition at the expense of its creators (Diem Lane, 33). Diem-Lane also tells us how there can be scenarios where if we stand in the superintelligence way, we can be eliminated. An example is when she says, “sending out mosquito-like robots with a deadly agent to target humans” (Diem Lane, 34).
How has technology impacted your life?
Technology is a big impact on my life. An example is the smart phone, it is ingrained in to our daily lives, I’m certain pretty much no one would leave home without one. It has become a necessity in the world we live in today. Like how Diem-Lane tells us in the Avatar Project, “Are we not intimately coupling more and more with computational intelligence, so much that we are forever tethered to our smart phones and other devices and we will not venture outwardly without them? Have we not created a digital cloud that follows stalks us wherever we go, responding to our moment-to-moment whims and needs?” (Diem-Lane 22). Another example in how it impacts my life is how I’m so enamored by my smart devices. That even when I’m with my friends and they are right next to me, I’m looking at my phone checking out social media, emails, or surfing the web. It seems like with technology we are becoming more isolated with our smart devices. Diem-Lane tells us if we are maybe becoming like the movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, “where we become zombie like creatures forever entranced by flickering screens of digital input?” (The Avatar Project, 22).