What Could Be Coming.

There is plenty of Artificial Intelligence (AI) used in today's society even if you have not noticed we come in contact with at least one object of AI on a daily basis such as our phones, ATM machines, or even automatic vehicles are just some examples. So technology surrounds us most of the day, and social medias are a great example of popular artificial intelligence since it includes surfing the web in addition to using a technological device in order to access the Internet. Social medias such as Facebook use a great deal of AI because it recognizes patterns that we create on site and introduces us to topics that are relatable to the things we usually interact with. The use of AI in this kind of manner makes it easier for us to see more of the items we enjoy and less of the things that do not interest us, this makes the social network more appealing to us so we would want to be on it for greater amounts of time. In my personal experience, besides Facebook, I have seen that Panora does this also, and Youtube. This reality that we live in aligns itself perfectly with the argument that we are already functioning as Post-Human individuals because we as human beings are acting as robots acting in a way of regularity and letting these forms of artificial intelligence control our lives instead of us.(http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Hayles-Posthuman-excerpts.pdf) Which is why I believe that Facebook is still a social network of people, but only the people that have been sorted out by AI to meet your desires in your profile. In the article "5 Very Smart People Who Think Artificial Intelligence Could Bring The Apocalypse," a mathematician and fiction writer by the name of Vernor Vinge invented the term "the singularity" to illustrate "the inflection point when machines outsmart humans." In that case, the singularity is the world after human-rule where AI becomes the dominant species. I think that this idea is not too far-fetched in our world today because AI is everywhere and in some instances AI has already found ways to outsmart the best human beings and once we create a true physical robot with the AI to outsmart us human beings, that will be the end of the human race.

Apple v.s The F.B.I

In my opinion, I believe that Apple should keep their stand against the FBI's request to have a back door into their customers devices. I have this mindset because it is our right to privacy as American citizens to not have the FBI interfering in our conversations and data. Also, if Apple leaves a back door for the FBI to "search for terrorists" then it will most likely be a back door for hackers to also get into our apparatuses and steal our information or be able to watch us at any moment. But if Apple decides not to comply with the FBI then I think that they will be in serious trouble because that is the law and I believe that the court will rule in the FBI's favor. The FBI uses the argument of being able to stop terrorists from committing another act, but  I think that if the terrorist would like to commit an attack then they could do it with other resources. If the terrorists really wanted to take action it could happen at any moment and without the source of devices or the Internet. In conclusion, we have the right to keep the FBI and potential hackers out of our private lifestyle and what we choose to do every day on our phones, we should not have to be afraid to have a conversation with another person and have limitations to what we can or cannot say because of other people butting into our gadgets. The FBI is not entitled to snoop in on our conversations and daily lives with the access provided by cellular companies, but once opening that door for the FBI to be able to see what we have who knows if they will keep their word about not looking through our stuff. They will always use the excuse of terrorist acts but we are not all terrorists, we are not all the same but could be treated the same if we give this pathway.
http://www.cnet.com/news/court-to-fbi-no-spying-on-in-car-computers/

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Post

I believe that robots can prove to be beneficial to the society and the country but I also fear that things may go wrong with the robots because humans do make mistakes and I think of the possibility of humans making one mistake on a robot that could end us all. If in the future the artificial intelligence does have a conscience, there is a possibility of having an absolute catastrophe that we may not be able to come back from. In my opinion, artificial intelligence does violate the Martens Clause, from 1977, because I feel as if artificial intelligence could have the potential to dictate its own public conscience if it were to be fooled around with and made to function improperly. Stuart Russell a professor of computer science from UC Berkley, also said in the article that current AI systems were impossibly incapable of satisfying Martens Clause. I define "meaningful human control" as humans being the alpha dogs and being able to control things such as robots/artificial intelligence that we have created. That here are four conversations in this article, the first conversation talks about debates upon whether AIs should be allowed in all the countries and warfare but is most lenient towards not having them. The second conversation speaks of the researchers point of view and how they intend to inform the public of the AIs. The third says they could benefit our society by proving to be useful in the medical field and helping doctors with electronic health care records and genomics. The fourth one states that these robots that were created still need our assistance and lack the ability to function on their own so we should be supportive of these new ideas and not vote them out of our future. I feel as if most fields would be impacted but mostly the business field would be impacted by AIs because they would get the most benefit from them, and the businesses that are not able to compete with the higher more economically funded businesses will fall and cease to exist. So I believe that the monopolies will have the most profit from the AIs. For example, Google has already engineered a self-driving car that can detect obstacles in the environment and people/cars around it. It is always accompanied by a human being behind the steering wheel but has the potential to drive itself around with our command. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/20/433000643/how-close-are-we-really-to-a-robot-run

2001: A Space Odyssey (Film Review)

First of all, I want to start by saying that the movie was very boring in my opinion. It had so many moments throughout the film that were left in blank and I as a viewer was left with a sense of not knowing what to do. Don't take this in a wrong manner, I did like the concept of the movie a lot but the film itself caused me to feel drowsy. For example, in the beginning, when it has two minutes of pitch blackness, I was wondering when it would end and would start feeling desperate. I like the idea of the movie as to thinking "what if" a future robot were to malfunction and disobey its maker's commands, how would we get back in control if we were put into Dave's situation with HAL. Dave's situation was a fictional event but if in reality that were to happen I am pretty sure that some would not know what to do and would end up dying. I liked how Dave traveled through light years and it seemed like if he was learning about things no human had ever seen before, such as different planets that have never been discovered and what seemed to be the big bang. But I believe that robots can be a very useful tool to have, as well as being useful they can be expensive and difficult to operate.

Post-Human

Human beings have come a long way since the cavemen era, but just as we continue to strive in technological  advancements the younger generations are taking a huge hit. Not only the young but also most adults have come to a point where it is necessary for them to stay close to their phone and/or cannot find it in themselves to leave the internet. It is true that these factors facilitate our lives but these objects also take over our lives. In N. Katherine Hayles' book, How We Became Posthuman, she talks about the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics and how they found a new way to look at human beings, which was as 'information-processing entities' who take in resemblance of intelligent machines. She defined the term humanism as having an identity and the freedom to flourish one-self into something greater. I would say that humanism is the ability to feel remorse and the ability to be unique unlike everyone else's mind set. She also set forward viewpoints on the posthuman, such as it would 'privilege information over materialistic objects' and that the posthuman 'controls humans so that they can be formed into intelligent machines.' I would have to agree with her and say that the posthuman is the extinction of the human race and what ever takes over after, will have total say on what to do with our remains. These terms differ in the fact that one is in the era of human beings and the other is after the humans are gone. I feel that I am posthuman to the extent that my life has been a sense of repetition in one way or another. I always have to wake up early in the morning either to go work or go to school, I have to eat everyday in order to stay alive, and there are so many other people that do the same thing I do it is like we are all a society of zombies headed in the same direction, doing the same thing. It is like if my life is scheduled already and there is no irregularity in it to shake things up. So when Hayles' says in Chapter One of her book "We do not see a world (out there) that exists apart from us. Rather, we see only what our systemic organization allows us to see", it made me think about my regular lifestyle and everything out there in need to be discovered. With so much potential and resources, and all we have come to is robots trying to become us. But it is true, we only stick to what we are told to do, already enacting the lifestyle of robots because we never choose to search outside the box for other information or something else outside of our standard, boring, ordinary life.