Post by qiangao on Jul 31, 2015 3:51:41 GMT
1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
According to Nick Bostrom in the video, “Is the Universe an App? Exploring Neural Trickery and the Illusion of Certainty,” the human species is most likely to go extinct before reaching a post human stage” By this, I think he means that before artificial intelligence can become a problem, he believes that humans will have gone extinct. I do know if I actually agree with this statement, however, I do not think that artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future. Humans are constantly making new technologies, and we make those technologies for our benefit. I do not think that artificial intelligence will be a problem because I think that if humans do invent artificial intelligence, it can only be to our benefit. Also in the writing “Digital Philosophy,” the author writes about the different technologies that humans are creating. He writes, Google Glasses are the most talked about new gadget in the first part of 2013 and for good reason. They represent how intelligent devices are rapidly evolving to become embedded objects in our day-to-day lives” (p 5). That was in 2013, and humans are only advancing with technology. He goes on to write about human’s consciousness and the questions that we seek to answer about the afterlife, which makes me wonder if artificial intelligence will ask the same questions. I do not think that artificial intelligence will be a problem for humans because humans are creating it.
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 many different ways. I use my cell phone everyday. I have a laptop and a tablet. I need my email and cell phone for communication. I watch Netflix and TV. I love to go to the movies. In fact, for lots of my entertainment, I use technology. So, in that way, technology has really benefited my life. In the writing, “Digital Philosophy,” the author writes about the use of GPS. He writes about how he uses them. He even writes: What a GPS does remarkably well (I couldn't imagine not having one out at sea” (p 1). I also use my GPS everywhere I go. Without my GPS, I would constantly be lost. Anytime I go somewhere new I use it. And it also makes it so much easier now when you invite someone somewhere. You no longer have to give them advice. You simply give them your address, and they use their GPS. It is incredible. In the video, “Discovery-The First Time Machine,” they talk about the invention of the first time machines. They talk about how that is a possibility, however, a time machine can only be invented in the future, and then one can only travel back in time to the moment the time machine was created. I think this is so cool. Even though it does not directly impact my life, I think it must be one of the most interesting technologies we are inventing today. In “Is the Universe an App” they talk about whether or not the universe is an app, and they compare human brains to a simulation. In this way, our brains act like a technological device. In “A New Kind of Science,” Stephen Wolfram also compares human brain activities to math and technology. In “Ray Kurzweil’s The Coming Singularity,” Ray Kurzweil argues that in twenty years we will have computers that are comparable to the human brain. In this way technologies in twenty years will have impacts on my life that are yet foreseen.
