Post by khanhphung on Feb 14, 2015 4:40:29 GMT
1)Do you think A.I will be the problem in the future?
When I consider the costs and benefits of AIs, I think (with my little knowledge) they will cause a number of unknown troubles. I am not concerned that they will take away our jobs (because we move accordingly to the paradigm shift all the time) and that they intrude our privacy (since we have already lost that ideal concept to the internet), but I worry about them when I think of their ability to self-improve and of the precedent disaster with nuclear weapons.
I have heard about a chest game that itself starts with the very beginning level, but whenever it loses a game, it improve itself and never make that same mistake again. After thousands of times losing to humans, it has eliminated all the "bad moves" to become an expert at chess, and no one call really wins. I am (with my virtual simulation) thinking that if the Mind Clone Robot (produced by Blomberg) also have that same feature and "think" that listening to our commands is a "bad move", thus it will start rebelling.
It does not end there, once, or if, it starts rebelling, I think the consequences are as mysterious as the nuclear weapons that we created. We really did not know how deadly the atomic bomb was before it was dropped in Japan. Likewise, if the AIs are becoming too smart, people would not know, or can't imagine, how disastrous they may become.
Again, this is just what I think might happen
2) How has technology impacted you life?
Technology has both good and bad impacts on my life, but so far, I have seen more of the good's than the bad's.
The bad impact I have as the cause of technology is the constant feeling of insecurity. Like a lot of people, I am also worried about my privacy and personal information. Having an IP address on every of our internet-accessing devices is like get tapped on our phone or having a location-tracing chip on our cars. Since just with a little research and one's IP address, anyone can find out what that person has been doing online, if not also offline. Thus, the insecure feeling comes when I sign up for a website, and especially when I log in to my online bank account. However, I still do it anyways; just like the film Digital Existentialism says, "we sacrifice our privacy for the never-ending companies and in return, we became the flickering screen that never shuts off". While I do not fully understand the second phrase, I think it still makes sense if we replace it with "we get conveniences".
It is true that I have been negatively impacted, but I think technology helps us with so many things, especially in terms of saving; by saving, it encompasses both time and money. This Philosophy course, as a perfect example, is saving me both a lot of time (not having to drive to school 4 days a week) and money (not having to purchase actual books). We cannot get this much advantage without the development of technology. One may say that I am a lazy and cheap guy (which can possibly be true), but the author, also my college professor, of the book Digital Philosophy though admitted that he is a book lover, he would not purchase a newly published book if it is available for him on his convenient Ipad (free or with a price). Thus we can see that technology has helped us a ton. Before one concludes if technology has overall negatively or positively impacted his or her life, that person should first ponder upon the question "whether I want to go back to the time technology did not exist or not?" For me, the answer is an absolute No
When I consider the costs and benefits of AIs, I think (with my little knowledge) they will cause a number of unknown troubles. I am not concerned that they will take away our jobs (because we move accordingly to the paradigm shift all the time) and that they intrude our privacy (since we have already lost that ideal concept to the internet), but I worry about them when I think of their ability to self-improve and of the precedent disaster with nuclear weapons.
I have heard about a chest game that itself starts with the very beginning level, but whenever it loses a game, it improve itself and never make that same mistake again. After thousands of times losing to humans, it has eliminated all the "bad moves" to become an expert at chess, and no one call really wins. I am (with my virtual simulation) thinking that if the Mind Clone Robot (produced by Blomberg) also have that same feature and "think" that listening to our commands is a "bad move", thus it will start rebelling.
It does not end there, once, or if, it starts rebelling, I think the consequences are as mysterious as the nuclear weapons that we created. We really did not know how deadly the atomic bomb was before it was dropped in Japan. Likewise, if the AIs are becoming too smart, people would not know, or can't imagine, how disastrous they may become.
Again, this is just what I think might happen
2) How has technology impacted you life?
Technology has both good and bad impacts on my life, but so far, I have seen more of the good's than the bad's.
The bad impact I have as the cause of technology is the constant feeling of insecurity. Like a lot of people, I am also worried about my privacy and personal information. Having an IP address on every of our internet-accessing devices is like get tapped on our phone or having a location-tracing chip on our cars. Since just with a little research and one's IP address, anyone can find out what that person has been doing online, if not also offline. Thus, the insecure feeling comes when I sign up for a website, and especially when I log in to my online bank account. However, I still do it anyways; just like the film Digital Existentialism says, "we sacrifice our privacy for the never-ending companies and in return, we became the flickering screen that never shuts off". While I do not fully understand the second phrase, I think it still makes sense if we replace it with "we get conveniences".
It is true that I have been negatively impacted, but I think technology helps us with so many things, especially in terms of saving; by saving, it encompasses both time and money. This Philosophy course, as a perfect example, is saving me both a lot of time (not having to drive to school 4 days a week) and money (not having to purchase actual books). We cannot get this much advantage without the development of technology. One may say that I am a lazy and cheap guy (which can possibly be true), but the author, also my college professor, of the book Digital Philosophy though admitted that he is a book lover, he would not purchase a newly published book if it is available for him on his convenient Ipad (free or with a price). Thus we can see that technology has helped us a ton. Before one concludes if technology has overall negatively or positively impacted his or her life, that person should first ponder upon the question "whether I want to go back to the time technology did not exist or not?" For me, the answer is an absolute No