Computers and Human-Level Intelligence

1486 Words3 Pages

Computers are taking more and more jobs and this trend will accelerate as we approach technological singularity. This is the event “when computers will attain human-level intelligence” Natalie Wolchover states. The singularity is projected to arrive sometime around 2030 -2040, but it could occur sooner depending on how computer technology develops. Wolchover states:
Physicist, author and self-described "futurist" Ray Kurzweil has predicted that computers will come to par with humans within two decades. He told Time Magazine last year that engineers will successfully reverse-engineer the human brain by the mid-2020s, and by the end of that decade, computers will be capable of human-level intelligence.
Corporations are currently thinking about how to profit off of this idea. Companies and its owners already make a lot of money through loopholes in taxes. This is something we should not only tax all companies more, but make sure we are cutting off their tax loopholes. We can use the money made from the taxes for increasing funding for the quality of education so that everyone can have an equal opportunity for a near future in the road to singularity. Although not everyone can learn to adapt to the new computerized future, it is necessary and all institutions must aid in this process. Just like a person who moves to the United States must learn English to progress in a college. However, this is not only the single best solution. If we look at Japan today, there is a decrease in birth rates. Some factors causing this are gender discrimination for women who are married more than a conservative one who follows a past madmen or salary men culture, valuing instant gratification like no strings attached sex and the abnegation of relationshi...

... middle of paper ...

...aper or free access to the server and the caches of the internet.
If Artificial intelligence makes better art than us, then they would make better computers and societies for all beings (even making theoretical committees for extraterrestrials), or they could choose to annihilate us for the purpose of their own gains (unless we can program them not do, but even if we do they can still have errors that make the program for respecting other being fail). However, would annihilating all biological life forms lead to a better ideal society or be better for artificial intelligent societies? Does throwing away all of humanity, biology humane or taking account their coexistence a difficult process that artificial intelligence cannot have the ability to do? If computers can be smarter than human beings, then they should be able to find a way to coexist with every being.

Open Document