Artificial Intelligence.
There is now a robot in Japan who can run and walk as we do. It can recognize speech and react accordingly. It responds to commands and can even avoid obstacles. The first reaction people normally have is one of amazement and wonder. Technology has got to a stage where the difference between us humans and God is beginning to diminish with alarming swiftness. Very soon, there will be robots like those in AI the movie. Robots that bears uncanny resemblance to humans physically and even emotionally. So the question now is, "Will robots finally take over the human race?"
Many of us would have caught the Terminator franchise in which the end of the world has arrived and robots ruled over humans. Those who have caught the Matrix franchise would also be familiar with this theme. Robots with artificial intelligence taking over the human race is not something to be laughed at -- it is frighteningly real. Robots are getting more and more advanced. Artificial intelligence controls a big part of our everyday life now. We rely so much on technology to get on with our everyday life that i can't imagine how i am going to survive on an island without any technology at all.
However there is this one story that i recall that somehow puts me at ease whenever someone brings out this discussion. It begins with this group of scientists who have somehow managed to cure every imaginable disease and clone every single living thing in the world. They feel that there is nothing left in the world that they can't do, and so they challenged God. God accepted the challenge and said, 'Why don't we have a competition to see who can grow a tree the fastest?' . The group of scientists agreed and proceeded to dig a hole in the groud. God immediately said, 'Get your own ground.'
My opinion is that no matter how advanced technology will be in the future, mankind can never be replaced or controlled by what we created. Unless of course, someone were to find a way to create the one thing that will forever seperate us between robots -- our soul.
Many of us would have caught the Terminator franchise in which the end of the world has arrived and robots ruled over humans. Those who have caught the Matrix franchise would also be familiar with this theme. Robots with artificial intelligence taking over the human race is not something to be laughed at -- it is frighteningly real. Robots are getting more and more advanced. Artificial intelligence controls a big part of our everyday life now. We rely so much on technology to get on with our everyday life that i can't imagine how i am going to survive on an island without any technology at all.
However there is this one story that i recall that somehow puts me at ease whenever someone brings out this discussion. It begins with this group of scientists who have somehow managed to cure every imaginable disease and clone every single living thing in the world. They feel that there is nothing left in the world that they can't do, and so they challenged God. God accepted the challenge and said, 'Why don't we have a competition to see who can grow a tree the fastest?' . The group of scientists agreed and proceeded to dig a hole in the groud. God immediately said, 'Get your own ground.'
My opinion is that no matter how advanced technology will be in the future, mankind can never be replaced or controlled by what we created. Unless of course, someone were to find a way to create the one thing that will forever seperate us between robots -- our soul.
posted by richel at 4:29 AM
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