I-Robot

After reading this article on artificial intelligence, it reminded me of I-Robot. It scares me to image a world of that nature but at times, I do wish for robots. How easy would it be for us college students to have something like that. Someone to do our laundry, clean our room and run errands for us. More time for us to concentrate on studying and homework. What a world that would be? However, life isn't there yet.

As for the questions at the end of the article. Computer-based neural network learn and adapt by analyzing the "scene, the objects in view and their relationships would trigger iconic representations which could be used to "output" language that describes the scene." (Davidson, 118) According to this statement, a robots analyze a scene and then if the scenery triggers an action, then the robot would obey the laws that it is programed to do so. This is what is really scary about the whole robot thing. If you can remember the scene from the movie I-Robot, when the main character played by Will Smith talks about his past and how a robot chose to save him over a child because of its analytically thinking. He had a higher chance of surviving than a child that was also drowning. He was upset because a person who chose to rescue a child over an adult because she has more life to live.

Even though this is something you can image getting upset over but at the same time, the is more that a robot can offer. Some has the ability to solve complex mathematically problems. But is math the most complex problems that we as human are challenged by. I think there are more things that we as human are challenged by. I don't believe that a robot can solve a complex conscious problem. We can program it to obey certain laws but what if the laws conflicts with an law. How would a robot react to that. It is hard to say but I know as a human, religion would play in the decision making.