Philosophy of artificial intelligence

Technologies are an Additional Value to the Hotel Industry Can you image a hotel fully staffed by robots? The Henn-na Hotel in Nagasaki is the first hotel where technologies bring the guests one step further into the future (“Henn-na Hotel General Concept”).It is the first hotel in the world where the hotel is staffed by robots. The journey starts at the front desk where guests will be welcomed by robots that speak multiple languages that will help to check- in and out. Then, a robotic arm will…

“I suggest a new strategy, Artoo: let the Wookie win,” said C3PO the sassy droid from the Star Wars Saga. ( )Machines, robots, automation, sensors, computers, they are everywhere! The book Rise of the Robots, written by Martin Ford tackles the age-old question if the threat of a jobless future is on the horizon. An Oxford study concluded that nearly half of all occupations in the United States are “potentially automatable” perhaps within “a decade or two.” With today’s technology every job from…

In the Blade Runner, Tyrell says "More human than human" to Deckard. When thinking of humanity many things may come to mind. The meaning of “human” is their ability to reason and grow as a thinker. This is due to the evolution of our brains and their ability to reach different levels of intellect. The big question here is, what does it means to be human? The word “human being” has many definitions; to be human you will need to have anatomical and biological qualities. Which means as humans we…

human life will be irreversibly transformed…” Many of Kurzweil’s ideas or predictions regarding the changing of our technological world, stemming from Singularity, are amazing albeit radically unnerving at the same time. The notion human and artificial intelligence will be fully integrated within the next 40 years is almost mind blowing; however major advances in genetics, nanotechnology and AI robotics may…

Isaac Asimov In 1942, American author and biochemist Isaac Asimov published a short story entitled Runaround. No one would have guessed that this story would become such a major part of science fiction’s “zero hour”. Along with authors such as Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein, Asimov would help form the foundation of modern science fiction and explore new concepts that would soon become the commonplace of the genre. Overall, Asimov had an undeniable impact on the science fiction genre as…

Hugh Herr’s Ted Talk was a beautiful mixture of presentation and demonstration. As an amputee himself Hugh was able to demonstrate how impactful these devices can be on ones life. He showed impactful video along with demonstrations, that showed the robotic’s ability. Herr argued that attaching things to the limbs, continues to be a problem despite the advancement of technology. His primary argument is that with the further advancement of technology prosthetics will be leaps and bounds above…

Sneha Dasgupta Dr. Sheryl Stevenson TRN190 October 26, 2015 Interdependency between Humans and Machines in The Turing Test In the words of Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, the creator of Kismet, one of the first social robots, “Robots are really intriguing social technologies. They touch something deeply human within us.” Yet, in Chris Beckett’s The Turing Test, Jess feels “uneasy” around her new personal assistant, Ellie. Her constant request “to copy myself from time to time to others in your address…

Similar to the film, "The Machines that Changed the World", I found the “The Rise of Personal Robots” by Cynthia Breazeal to be extremely informative, captivating, but also unlike anything I’ve seen before. Although robots have been around for countless of years, robots have always interacted with things not people. Throughout the short film, Breazeal introduces us to several robots that her and her team of graduate students built. Breazeal’s ultimate goal was to create a robot that could…

Violent delights have violent ends "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race” (Stephen Hawking). Hawking divulges that as we approach the singularity, our own creations will render us evolutionarily obsolete. Our great developments over time are the things that have allowed us to make our own tools, languages and commerce but someday instead of creating new technology our innovations may bring us to our own demise. Science fiction writer Vernor…

Josh Villaflor Phil 110 Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence the advancement of human technology that allows a machine to achieve what living organism have a conscious. Immediately the thought of machines with a conscious of a human is straight from science fictions, as bring people to both sides of the argument on if we should advance to allow machines to have a conscious or no we shouldn't as it is the act of having machines should not be able to be on par with humans…