Artificial Intelligence: Near Future or Fantasy Nightmare

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of thought, with the translation of notions into words being

the act of understanding" (Atkinson). Sometimes to increase the understanding of words, the

speaker must either increase the amount or substance of the words or greatly shorten the words to

get the actual point across to the receiver. A simple computer program can distinguish and

differentiate the spoken words to understand what the speaker is talking about. Many programs

can now teach interactive language classes, these classes can understand the spoken words well

enough to correct the speakers tones and accents.

Strong AI is the building of machines that have the intellect equal to humans or better

than humans so that the intellectual ability cannot be ascertained from that of a genuine human.

Promises of the technology

There have been many books and movies based upon Artificial intelligence, we as a

culture have been inundated with images of a future filled with intelligent robotic assistants who

are able to perform all of our menial, redundant, dangerous and everything else we don’t want to

do every day. According to USA Today, robots are working side by side with human workers at

the Haneda airport in Japan. This is only a start in the integration of

robotic use into our daily lives, in the near future we may be

outsourced to robotic workers, and simply drawing a pension

from big businesses that own the companies the robots are working at

(Fox News).

Usually robots are portrayed as the so called villain in movies,

typically there is an underlying human villain that has programmed them to act in a certain way

that is not consistent with their original programming. When a robot is functioning properly

however, they could (theoretically) be a very valuable asset for freeing us up from the mundane

tasks or problems that are not worthy of wasting a lot of time on, then we can focus on problems

that are too technical or too far advanced for their reasoning mainframe to handle. But what

happens when someone does hack into your personal robot to either steal information about you

or to program it to cause your family harm, for every good idea there is also someone who hacks

the system just for fun. New cars get hacked and are causing crashes and systems to be disabled,

these are simple systems and people are still breaking into them, why, people get bored and find

something that hasn’t been broken into yet. So, to make a name for themselves they hack systems

for bragging rights mainly, there are some however that have with malicious intent.

Personal and societal impacts of technology

The future of robots is just around the corner for us and our children, like it or not we are

going to be the leaders in robotic personal usage since the prices are currently dropping to an

acceptable level. In the not too far future they will be as plentiful as smart phones are now or

answering machines were 20 years ago. Robotic Intelligence is only a matter of time for the near

future.

Workplace and peer impacts of the technology

We must accept the influx of intelligent beings whether they are physically working or

just a voice on the telephone. We have already begun the process of phasing human workers out

of supermarkets, banks, customer services, vacuuming and numerous other services. There are

autonomous robots that can move around congested and bustling areas without any problems.

With acceptance, we can start to learn how to control and eventually, how to live side-by-side

with them. Working together will make our lives easier, safer, and increase our own quality of

living.

Potential downsides of the technology

They will have many defects and bugs to work out and many people will lose their jobs

without specialized training, but the advantages will far outweigh the problems of use, like it or

not, here they come.

Efficiency promoted by technology

The Possibilities are endless with the technological advancements and human curiosities.

The near future could hold a cybernetic organism in every home, doing all of our simple,

mundane and dangerous work. This would allow more time for intellectual endeavors for the

future wellbeing of mankind.

Future of the technology

Many advancements in the robotics field have already lead to better mobility for people

with weakened muscles, physical disabilities and injuries. The near future holds many

possibilities for prosthetics research as well as cybernetic organisms, that we can download our

thoughts, memories and personalities into. Work is underway on developing a computer program

that we can download our consciousness into, this research could possibly be the gateway to

being immortal