BLOG ASSIGNMENT #6

As we all know Ray Kurzweil is very optimistic about the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it will affect us in the future. In his book The Singularity Is Near he expresses his thought of what human are capable of doing and how we can better from machines rather than thinking negatively about them. The author says “Human skills are able to develop only in ways that have been evolutionary encouraged. Those skills, which are primarily based on massively parallel patterns recognition, provide proficiency for certain task, such as distinguishing face, identifying objects, and recognizing language sounds. But they’re not suited for many others, such as determining patterns in financial data. Once we fully master pattern-recognition paradigms, machines methods can apply these techniques to any type of patter” (Kurzweil 139). What this quote is stating is that once we figure out how create machines that are able to have human skills it will benefit us more in the future. We as humans have many advantages because we are able to have patterns of recognition which is something machines are go good at, but once we discover away to apply this to machines there will be a very positive outcome.  I believe AI in machines will grow and one day it’ll have a great amount of intelligence but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will hurt us, but help us a lot in the long run. In response to Ray Kurzweil, David Gelernter a computer pioneer expresses his point of views and its limitations of the way machines will one day operate in Dream-Logic, The Internet and Artificial Thought. He expresses his views in more if a realist way of thinking for example “as far as we know, there is no way to achieve consciousness on a computer or any collection of computers…..the computer would have no inner mental world; would in fact be unconscious” (Gelernter 207). Here he explains his views and states that although machine could have all the intelligence programed in them, they will never be like humans because they will never have consciousness, which the main thing that differs us from machines in general.