Computers, Appliances, Silicon Chips, Networking, Portable Computers, Television, Cars even. Everyday items are feats of masterful techknowl0gy at work. But do any of us commoners, Teenagers, Working men, Working women, Parents, The people that make up the world, really understand how any of this works? What makes a silicon chip have more processing power, more computing speed, a faster thought process if you will, Than our most accomplished human minds?
Silicon, a metal; and electricity a force, combined those can think faster than us.
The only people that really know our those grad students that study computer science, but even then do we truely understand it? the silicon chip is indented or ingraved or whatever with small pathways for the electricity to flow and each pathway has little circuits that switch on and off given certain requirements. but how does it know those requirements. how do we program these things to run certain ways. how do we tell the chip to make a pathway that is the equivilent of 5 + 4 and then even have it figure out the answer based on what we tell it 5 and 4 is.
How do these machines think? and can we really saw they dont? I honestly think machines are a new man made breed of creature, a new class even. almost mythical,
Machines are not born they are created, they serve their purpose whole heartedly without faulter and hesitation. They preform feats that are seemingly impossible. machines require no food to sustain their life, only a tribute of energy to preform their task.
Machines are living weather we consider the definition to involve them or not. they think, learn and evolve.
Techknowlogy is truely our greatest creation. It surpasses us in every way, and we dont even fully understand it.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a sensitive concept you've touched on, Derek. Some of our most advanced AI programs can actually go into themselves and change their code based on the situation. But even then they learn the same way we do, by experience. Nothing, whether living or non, can change itself without the experince to know what to change to... ?
ReplyDeletethese are all good points. but even so the most basic computers can "think" faster than all humans combined. witch is one surpassing, all construction machinery can lift more than all humans combined. is that not surpassing? and humans are the most intelegent creature on the planet. and if we created somthing that learns like us, with 100x the thinking power, and 100x the strength. well is that not creating somthing that surpasses us? they sound just as alive as we are just made up of different material. were made of skin, them of metal. in the end we both still think, and are run by pulses of electricity. we sound kinda alike
ReplyDeleteIt seems you're a little off on your description of machinery and computers. Computers don't exactly "learn" or "think" of their own accord. Computers provide the output to a set of specific instructions, and can not change that output on a whim. The instructions provided by the programmer tell the processor "when there are eight of this variable, what is the output number?" The answer being 8x. Artificial Intelligence, however, is a different matter. With an AI, the programmer has instructed the computer to adapt to patterns that are the result of user input. This is why an AI cannot become sentient on its own. I also noted your analogy of the construction machine, but there's a difference there, as well. The machine operator provides the input, and the output is that the hydraulics in the arm compress and expand. This, of course, makes the arm "move" and "lift" anything in its path. That just shows physics in motion, not actual strength or muscular power. Humans and machines are indeed similar. I personally believe that no modern machine is close to being considered "alive" by most logical definitions of the word.
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ReplyDeletelol of course the commenters i get are Andrew and Ridley the 2 that would MOST disagree with me. While yes its all user input and the evolution is up building it better. imagine it this way. the user import is there conscious mind. the thing that decides what they process next. while that way we too become a part of the being that is machines. its only matter of time that they develop there own conscious. while today most computers cant even "wake up" without a human, its getting to the point that they never shut off even when a human tells them too, and with the advancement of solar technology and alternative power sources. it will soon be that machines don't need power outlets and batteries or refueling of gasoline to run, but will be able to run any time with no extra effort. and combined with never shutting off merely "sleeping" there's another step of computers becoming living. and with more advanced AI that learns indefinitely computers will truly be living, but as for now i feel that they are alive, but as some would put it "soulless"
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