A.I.
Ive recently been in a conversation with a friend about artificial intelligence in robots, based on the movie i robot (will smith rocks).
I made my point about how self awareness and a true consciousness in robots is impossible, and therefore the climatic ending in the movie is not something we need worry about.
It was rather odd to think about the subject and realise that robots and computers in general control us in a slightly scary ‘for the protection of the species’ way. They build our cars, teach our children, fly our planes, control our traffic, cook our food. Without them, our lives would come to a standstill. Is that a far throw from physical interference in our lives to protect us? yes. But not by enough. At the end of the day, robots follow programming code. Therefore showing no consciousness. But when this code is: ‘protect the humans’ would it take much for robots to step in, perhaps taking a heavy hand against governments.
Obviously this is an idea for the futurists to take up and not one i shall pursue further due to the already heavy workload for my brain to plough through. I shall however leave on a little paradox i realised about these poor robots:
By programming free will, you are in fact, not giving any at all.
