Scott Draves also mentioned that one of his goals while making his artwork is to create a virtual reality. Think of life inside of a computer. He asked people to think, can computers think? Do they have a mind of their own? Artificial intelligence? That brings up other controversial debates, is techonology becoming too advanced for us? To be honest, if you think about it, it’s a weird topic to think about. Draves’s work is so unique with the way he used his technology, but just think about other type of it. What’s going to happen when we get older and other technology increases. I wrote a short argumentative paper on technology and, if we aren’t careful, how it could turn for the worst. This also shows another social problem that our society could be facing.
Is technology helping humans with the way we live life or is it actually ruining the way we live and affecting the way we think? “The machine’s way of thinking is fundamentally unhuman. Humans don’t sit around crunching every possible move, because our brains can’t hold that much information at once” said Clive Thompson the author of “Smarter than You Think”. Technology allows us humans to store and share information too easily these days. We are creating technology to do almost everything we need to do in life. Now is this a good thing or a bad thing? It creates a controversy that is very much debatable because some people believe that it makes our lives easier and other believe that even though it does, that it isn’t always a good thing. I believe that technology will become too advanced for the human race to work with because robots and other technology will develop artificial and that it will affect us negatively in many ways.
Some people would disagree this that statement. Others believe that technology is bettering us for the future ahead. Our world will be a simpler place because with technology, robots are much better workers than humans. Unlike humans, when robots or a machine is doing a job, there is no human error. As of today, robots do many of our jobs such as building cars, making items in factories, and much more. With technology increasing at the rate it is today, robots will be taking over many more jobs in the future. Author Kevin Kelly believes “…before the end of this century, 70 percent of today’s occupations will likewise be replaced by automation” (300). This would mean all the jobs done by technology would be made without error, made faster, plus it would cost less because you don’t have to pay robots to do work like humans. However they will continue to take jobs as stated by Kelly here. “First machines will consolidate their gains in already automated industries. After robots finish replacing assembly line workers, they will replace the workers in warehouses.” (Kelly, 300) Robots would start to move into almost every area or work including medical areas. This could benefit everyone around the world because of how much better and faster jobs would be done. There would be no humans to make any mistakes and the work industry would flow smoothly.
Like I mentioned before, technology is becoming too advanced and along with that we are making technology too smart. “Machines are acquiring smarts. We have preconceptions about how an intelligent robot should look and act, and these can blind us to what is already happening around us.” (Kelly, 301) What Kelly is saying is that the better we create technology the more it can do. So if we train robots to do all these different task, eventually we will end up creating them to learn. They will be able to have artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is the intelligence showed by machine’s capability to learn. If robots develop that, there are limitless amount of things that could happen. Once they realize they don’t need humans to control them anymore, they will have a mind of their own and what to do whatever they want. There is already a robot that can “look around and indicate where it is looking by shifting the cartoon eyes on its head. It can perceive humans working near it and avoid injuring them.” (Kelly, 302) This is a very exciting project that people created but if they keep advancing robots to be more aware of their surrounding and they develop knowledge, it could be a little scary.
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