Human and Machine from Tom Liao

          Most of us have seen the movie: Terminator.  In our industries, we use robots in many ways and we keep trying to improve them.  Will machines actually take over humans in our future?  Even though there are many opinions, I would presume: some day, human will be replaced by the machines. 

            When I was in a bookstore, I saw a book with a term “singularity”.  I picked it up and flipped some pages. And I found out that it has to do with the time human will have after they have created very powerful computers.  I looked up the term again recently and understood that it associates with the time after the computer is more powerful then the human brains.  The source also said this even is likely to happen in 21^st century and the breakthrough is likely to be Artificial Intelligence.   A.I.s may also get some boost from nanotechnology.  What I see now is that human is the most dominant specie on earth and we control many things with our brain by create tools and machines.  If there is the specie called machines that have more advanced brains than ours, obviously they can dominate us with their mind.  Of course, they do not have to be willing to harm us but more advanced minds dominate over less advanced minds.

            Do we need to worry about the singularity?  I would say “no”.  When we thought about building rockets and launching them into space, there are possibilities that rockets can land on our houses but that did not stop us from building rockets.  Again, the largest particle accelerator in the world in Switzland was thought to create a black hole to devour our world or turn the whole world into the strange matter, but it is still built.  So I say:  just keep pursue your dreams and happiess, and  future is not future if it is predictable.