In today’s multicultural society, technology has become a
necessity among human beings. Technology has evolved over the course of many
years and as a result, it has started to become one with life itself. Humans
have started to show signs of becoming more like machines. People are becoming
more reliant and dependent on their technology and its starting to control how
they live their lives. At the same time, technology has grown to the point that
it has started to show characteristics of real life human beings. With the
result of humans becoming more like machines and vise versa, humans are
becoming more threaded with their technology that it becomes an extension of
their bodies, inventions such as Siri (interactive app for the iPhone) have
assimilated themselves as human beings, scientists are trying to implement
genuine human emotions into robots, and artificial intelligence is being
questioned to be smarter than humans.
Man is now a machine:
Dependency that humans have for machinery has increased
tremendously of the last 50 years and we have transformed into the digital
generation. Humans are so threaded with technology that it has become an
extension of their bodies. Advances in technology have changed the way
individuals learn, communicate, and survive. It is understandable to use
technology for an advantage because it is no longer necessary to know how to
spell or go to the library to research a topic. Unfortunately with new found
technology individuals are always staying connected to a machine which causes
robotic characteristics to be absorbed in ones personalities. The youth that
has been born and raised in this digital time is most effected and feels the
most dependency to the new found technology. In the short story The Veldt there
is insight to this theory when the mechanical play room becomes the most
important aspect of the young children's lives. "They live for the
nursery"(9). There is a lot of attachment individuals feel for their phones,
computers, and iPods. These devices are closely tethered to our emotions and
make us have one-dimensional personalities similar to robots.
Machine Transforming into Man:
A factor that leads into the transition making machine become
man are inventions from the iWorld, including iPhones and iPods. More
specifically, the creation of apps that make humans more dependent on
technology, more specifically the birth of the popular interactive Siri. Siri
is a so called robot who fulfills commands at a voice command, causing humans
to rely on it instead of human instinct. For example, in Andrew Sullivan's
"Society is Dead, We Have Retreated into the iWorld," Sullivan
analyzes the atmosphere in New York
City and compares it to its past. His observations
have lead him to believe that the so called iWorld and its Apple products have
taken over the real world; people were so preoccupied with "the little
white buds" (iPods) that he did not believe that the atmosphere of New York City was not as
restless, chaotic, and hectic as it usually is. With the evolution of these and
many other inventions, not only have humans become more lazy and dependent on
the use of technology, but robots have assimilated themselves as humans with
its dependency.
One goal that scientists have in robot technology is to
incorporate genuine human emotions into robots. Although the technological
advances of robots have become human like and efficient, they cannot truly be
equipped with the emotions of a human being and scientists are portraying the
idea that the human mind can just be created into a robot, but in reality it is
not possible. Emotions and reactions are programmed into the robots themselves.
They do not act on their own. They designed to show an “emotion” when
confronted with a specific interaction. Even though that may be, the emotions
that robots seem to mimic are not genuine; they are programmed in their
circuitry.
Artificial intelligence outsmarting humans is a possibility
that
should not be ignored in any serious thinking about the future. This
essay talks about the case for thinking that human-level machine
intelligence might appear in the future. People around the world have fears of this topic, but it's out of the question that such thing will never occur. Humans are the master mind behind of it all,without our complex thoughts these would have never been made. It's not a secret that people will intend to make a machine with human features, but it will never happen. A living organism is not something man made, therefore, technology will never prevail in society.
should not be ignored in any serious thinking about the future. This
essay talks about the case for thinking that human-level machine
intelligence might appear in the future. People around the world have fears of this topic, but it's out of the question that such thing will never occur. Humans are the master mind behind of it all,without our complex thoughts these would have never been made. It's not a secret that people will intend to make a machine with human features, but it will never happen. A living organism is not something man made, therefore, technology will never prevail in society.
All things considered, technology has become a fundamental
and vital part of human existence. It has come to a point where humans have
become non-existent to the world if they aren’t in the presence of technology.
In a similar way, machines have become more developed over the years and in
result, they have started to become more lifelike. In conclusion, With the
result of humans becoming more like machines and vise versa, humans are
becoming more threaded with their technology that it becomes an extension of
their bodies, inventions such as Siri (interactive app for the iPhone) have
assimilated themselves as human beings, scientists are trying to implement
genuine human emotions into robots, and artificial intelligence is being
questioned to be smarter than humans.
