Sunday, September 25, 2011

WHO IS YOUR DADDY!!!

What would the world be like if humans were not the dictators of the world anymore? How would the world run, with computers becoming more powerful and possibly becoming more efficient then even the human body would humans become “cyborgs”(1)? If we (scientists) were to create a computer powerful enough to do anything a human could do that could be good and it could be bad. The bad part would be “ Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an untraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an “intelligence explosion,” and the intelligence of man would be left far behind” (2).  The good part on the other hand would be the possibility of the machines or computers coming up with ways to make humans live forever or a longer than the average humans nowadays. Also another benefit from have machines be the people making decisions is that they might be able to find cures to diseases or possibly even one day find a cure to cancer. Raymond Kurzweil was probably one of the greatest young minds at his time ever. He came up with something that no one had ever even thought of. He was the first person to come up with a computer and then also the first person to come up with a way for blind people  to type stuff from the computer he made. I think this article was very helpful in helping me decide whether or not it would be good for the world to have computers and or machines take over the human race. I would have to say in my opinion it would be good if machines became like humans and found stuff that we never could and it would be fine even if the surpassed us but I would have to say we should never be totally destroyed.

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