Mrs. Vesna Discusses many extremely famous inventors who revolutionized their society in history and made a name for themselves that will live on forever in history books. People like Nikola tesla and Albert Einstein developed theories for physics and technologies to further mechanization. I believe that the next stage in robotics, industrialization, and Art is artificial intelligence. AI has always been a dream of science fiction writers and entrepreneurs and I believe that the people who should be credited with the first user friendly, beautiful, and reliable first generation AI system is Apple Inc.
Business insider columnist Ellis Hamburger says that Siri has “changed the way [he] lives his life” and that “Siri has made some very specific tasks a lot less annoying, which makes you feel good every time you use it” (Hamburger). The idea behind a personal assistant has been fantasized through pop culture for decades. In games like Halo and Television shows like the Jetsons, Artificial intelligence has been somewhat of a dream, until Apple brought it to the masses. However, this doesn’t come without a few concerns.
In the lecture videos, Mrs. Vesna discusses how inventions like the printing press brought way to the assembly line and how those destroyed individuality and uniqueness in every day consumer products. What would happen to humans if our technology develops to the point of self thought? Would we become useless and inefficient? Or would we use the technology to further our understanding of complex discussions?
Three months ago we discovered a new way to fight malaria. Oh, did I say we? I meant Eve, the disease fighting robot. “Eve was designed to find new disease-fighting drugs faster and cheaper than her human peers” (Dashevsky). With advanced artificial intelligence, Eve uses a pair of robotic arms to create and test new hypotheses for disease fighting methods.
Overall I believe that Artificial intelligence will be the next revolutionary technology that will change the fabric of our society and influence the way we see the world.
Work cited
Dashevsky, Evan. "Will Robots Make Humans Unnecessary?" PCMAG. N.p., 3 Feb. 2016. Web. 20 Apr. 2016.
Hamburger, Ellis. "After Two Weeks With Siri, It's Already Changed The Way I Live My Life." Business Insider. Business Insider, Inc, 28 Oct. 2011. Web. 20 Apr. 2016.
Geller, Tom. "Talking to Machines." Communications of the ACM Commun. ACM 55.4 (2012): 14. Web.
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