Post by Justin Chao on Jul 29, 2015 21:27:06 GMT
1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
The problem with estimating whether or not AI will prove to be a significant issue is first defining how intelligent future AI will become. If we are to assume that the computers which house the artificial intelligence systems are advanced enough to pass the Turing Test, then it is very likely that AI will become a significant problem in the future. Already we have gone through such a technological revolution is just the last decade alone that it is not our of proportion to think that we can build intelligence that can fool a human. We have phones that can comprehend, to certain degrees, questions that require some level of 'intuition' to answer. We upload all relevant information of our lives to the internet and the cloud for guaranteed safe keeping. From birthdays to bank statements, as stated in Digital Philosophy, “the internal is moving external” (Lane 7). Having an AI may be a very handy thing in the future, but as foreshadowed in many movies, there are many routes that AI can follow that can either be benevolent or belligerent. If any artificial life form were to take after the mentality of Hal in the famous Kubrick Film 2001, A Space Odyssey, there will definitely be problematic errors that will need to be remedied. However if we are able to contain such malicious 'thoughts' within the system, and we are able to create an AI like that within Her, then there may not be much to fear.
2. How has technology impacted your life?
Being more right before the turn of the millennium, I can firmly say that technology has impacted much of my life in positive ways because I have grown along the greatest era of technological improvement in the history of humanity. So many countless events in my daily life revolve around technology to the degree where if I was left without something as my cellphone, I would be very handicapped for the day. I wake up to an alarm on my phone, navigate the traffic to work from the GPS on it, plan future events on the calendar, send messages to people I need to instantly contact, search up places to eat lunch, play games while I'm waiting for the time to pass, etc. In a way, technology has improved my life, but it also has negatively impacted myself in many ways. All these tasks that I appropriate to technology make my own self useless in the event I should be out of contact from it. Practically every luxury I listed above that comes from technology has become so contrary with my everyday life, it becomes a loss that cannot easily be filled when void. Some may call that being spoiled, others say it is just how the times are. Perhaps as technology further increases, it can alleviate the very problems it created within my life should it be lost.
The problem with estimating whether or not AI will prove to be a significant issue is first defining how intelligent future AI will become. If we are to assume that the computers which house the artificial intelligence systems are advanced enough to pass the Turing Test, then it is very likely that AI will become a significant problem in the future. Already we have gone through such a technological revolution is just the last decade alone that it is not our of proportion to think that we can build intelligence that can fool a human. We have phones that can comprehend, to certain degrees, questions that require some level of 'intuition' to answer. We upload all relevant information of our lives to the internet and the cloud for guaranteed safe keeping. From birthdays to bank statements, as stated in Digital Philosophy, “the internal is moving external” (Lane 7). Having an AI may be a very handy thing in the future, but as foreshadowed in many movies, there are many routes that AI can follow that can either be benevolent or belligerent. If any artificial life form were to take after the mentality of Hal in the famous Kubrick Film 2001, A Space Odyssey, there will definitely be problematic errors that will need to be remedied. However if we are able to contain such malicious 'thoughts' within the system, and we are able to create an AI like that within Her, then there may not be much to fear.
2. How has technology impacted your life?
Being more right before the turn of the millennium, I can firmly say that technology has impacted much of my life in positive ways because I have grown along the greatest era of technological improvement in the history of humanity. So many countless events in my daily life revolve around technology to the degree where if I was left without something as my cellphone, I would be very handicapped for the day. I wake up to an alarm on my phone, navigate the traffic to work from the GPS on it, plan future events on the calendar, send messages to people I need to instantly contact, search up places to eat lunch, play games while I'm waiting for the time to pass, etc. In a way, technology has improved my life, but it also has negatively impacted myself in many ways. All these tasks that I appropriate to technology make my own self useless in the event I should be out of contact from it. Practically every luxury I listed above that comes from technology has become so contrary with my everyday life, it becomes a loss that cannot easily be filled when void. Some may call that being spoiled, others say it is just how the times are. Perhaps as technology further increases, it can alleviate the very problems it created within my life should it be lost.