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Carlie Zeisler
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Nadine and Other Forms of Artificial Intelligence “All of this seems like science fiction...DuLight and the Google chatbot may be experiments, but Facebook’s facial recognition, Microsoft’s Skype translation, and Google’s Android voice recognition are very real-and available to us all.” (Metz) What is artificial intelligence (A.I.)? A.I. is technology that can process most information and display some form of intelligence. Your phone, tablet, computer, or even a robot? All artificial intelligence. 2015 was an astounding year for A.I., and the future seems equally as promising. However, we have yet to make something truly intelligent. For now, will have to deal with the programming only …show more content…

Obviously technology can help the productivity of businesses, as well as help in the medical world and in warfare, but the most important thing that could ever happen to the world involving technology would be what's known as the Technological Singularity (or just “the Singularity”-as long as everyone is clear you're discussing computer science). This Singularity is when a computer can both think and reason, making them as humanlike as A.I. could ever be (think Jane from The Ender Quintet, or the more commonly known Skynet from Terminator). At this point, A.I. would've reached what is best known as the “intelligence explosion”-when technology is able to program and improve itself. Now, this seems far off but Ray Kurzweil, futurist and computer scientist, it is most likely going to be in 2045, only 29 years from now. However, for any of this to happen, according to the New Yorker, the machine would need not just deep learning abilities, but would need to be capable of processing abstract ideas as well as causal relationships (i.e. brother-sister relationships), and be able to make logical inferences. And even if, no one said the would be some malicious force set on conquering the world. To put it in the words of Stephen Hawking, “The real risk with A.I. isn't malice but competence. A superintelligent A.I. will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren't aligned with ours, we’re in

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Carr describes the way our brains have changed as a consequence of using media. He later reports that when new or improved technology enters our lives, we begin to take on the qualities of those technologies, because it changes our “intellectual technologies”. He also uses the analogy of a clock, presenting the idea that we eat, work, sleep, and rise based on what time of day it is, instead of listening to our own senses. Carr then uses the claim from a 1936 British mathematician named Alan Turing that computing systems are subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies such as our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and our television. Likewise, he explains how the internet assumes what we are thinking and injects its context with hyperlinks, blinking ads, headlines, and other propaganda.

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