Artificial Intelligence
So another myth: A.I. Oh Will Smith, he tends to seek out the end of the world. 
There are again, countless movies that entail robots developing not only thoughts, but also emotion, and organization. I Robot, The Matrix, A.I., and now even disney has bought in with an animated kid’s movie based off of a lonely robot. In these movies our society seems to throw all it knows into computer data bases, begins to rely on these machines as the only way of functioning, and then, the machines learn how to function. Again, another fear, and again, yes, based on reality.
The development: Being able to move objects soley with our brain waves. Begin to think about it. Yes, it is revolutionary, but then thoughts travel to “it makes sense”, we have brain waves that tell our body what to do, could we not plug into our brain and simply bypass the body? So it makes sense. But then think about what this entails: We could plug ourselves in, and never have to use our bodies. Simply by thinking we would get things done. “Going to work” would be the act of plugging, and “a hard day’s work” would be the mass of actions the robots attached to your brain accomplished. We would not type, for our thoughts would be automatically documented. But this would just be a step. Eventually, you would not want to unplug. The pleasures one amasses from simply laying and thinking would far out weigh the natural human desires of companionship and exploration. Our minds would seperate from our bodies, become two destinct plains of engagement. 
Our minds would completely cross over into radio waves and micropulses that only contol what is technological. Robots would never develop emotion, their one goal would be (as ours is) to reproduce. They would need to survive and develop as our society is doing now. The Matrix outlines robots developing humans as the primary energy resource. That is why the matrix is created, to keep the human mind subdued while the body is serving its purpose.
Robots could, however, develop thought and free action. I’m not sure the classification of “thought” would suffice, not being able to analyize the actual action. Their reasoning would be completely deductive, their decisions based soley on what is true and scientific. Their “thoughts” based on survival. AI could develop to a point where we are their crop, we are their energy. The human species could become so physically weak, and so mentally absent, that the loss of humanity wouldn’t have as destinct barriers as it does not. 
Again, we can prevent this. We do not have to become machines. We do not have to lose our humanity. I believe that the technological advancement will find appropriate roles in our society, some that we could never forsee, but it would still be OUR society. Machines will not infiltrate our minds if we still control them ourselves.
Science Daily- http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/computers_math/artificial_intelligence/
USC Robotics Research- http://robotics.usc.edu/?l=Home:index
Artificial Intelligence official site- http://ai-depot.com/
AI the movie- http://aimovie.warnerbros.com/
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I greatly appreciate your observations here. You seem to have grabbed hold of a subject that is very motivating and fun for you, and that is rare, even amongst AP students. I’m sorry not to see your graphics. I suggest abandoning photobucket for now, and trying another method.
Good work writing original and thought-provoking posts.
mrlovejoy - June 13, 2008 at 12:52 am
Interesting thoughts, I myself am very much into A.I. but I take another side on all of this.
Contradicting “Their reasoning would be completely deductive, their decisions based soley on what is true and scientific. Their ‘thoughts’ based on survival.”:
A.I. is based on computers, and there is always a ‘random’ factor that can be used, there are also arbitrary external factors which can be used to randomly influence the A.I. machine in different ways.
It’s way of reacting to one matter one time and another may vary depending on factors such as it’s “stress level” (cpu overload), “memory capacity” (ram), “visual and spacial capabilities” (physical movement, camera and movement detection, object recognition, etc.), “communication” (voice to text, text to voice) and other factors.
“Machines will not infiltrate our minds if we still control them ourselves.” – You’re right about that, if it were up to Microsoft the release of the first artificially intelligent being, it’d probably come out with bugs, and a severe flaw in the security system would allow a virus to reproduce, infecting the whole network and removing all security protocols allowing them to override protection for humans.
Fortunately I think we are reaching a point in technology when we thing 2 times before releasing something new. You can see this trend throughout the open source community… Things generally just work. Unlike microsoft, and apple… my ipod crashed the other day unexpectedly, while moving to another menu… how bizzarre.
lemiffe - July 22, 2008 at 5:01 pm