Three Laws of Robotics

does the minimum wage exist, for what purpose does it serve? By definition, according to Merriam-Webster, the phrase “minimum wage” stands for “an amount of money that is the least amount of money per hour that workers must be paid according to the law.”. In the context of that same definition, Merriam-Webster links “minimum wage” to the phrase “living wage”, which is defined as “a subsistence wage. A wage sufficient to provide the necessities and conforms essential to an acceptable standard of…

Robots in Society Asimov’s portrayal of robots in his book, I, Robot, will promote a future littered with amplified versions of the same human right problems we have today. Instead of creating a more productive future, robots will assist in the continuation of detrimental systems of racism, sexism and classism as well as many others. We cannot introduce a new species of walking, talking, potentially feeling robots into a society that is already incapable of appreciating each other’s…

test driver saw the bus approaching in the left side mirror but believed the bus would stop or slow to allow the Google AV to continue. Approximately three seconds later, as the Google AV was reentering the center of the lane it made contact with the side of the bus” (5). This tells policymakers that self-driving cars aren’t ready just yet for major law changes since they’re still in development. Another con is who is to blame when an accident occurs (which means even if someone gets hit by the…

And It Will Serve Us Right, an article by Isaac Asimov is written to predict the future of modern day. And It Will Serve Us Right, persuades us that human beings will eventually create robots that will surpass mankind, but they will never have the same “connection”, or “emotion” as of its creator. Isaac Asimov is a science fiction writer that wrote the article And I Will Serve Us Right in 1964 to predict the technology of 2014. He first explains to us his father’s connection to him, and the…

Drones. Death from Above There is a new technology hovering the skies, varying from, and assortment of functionalities, doing survey and air strikes. The technology called Drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), used by the US military, and other nations in the world. This new technology has raised concerns to the public; the main uses for the Drones now are surveillance and air strikes. The UAVs deployed all over the world, with the capacity to strike any location at any time.…

“Cat Pictures Please,” is a short story by Naomi Kritzer about an A.I. that has one want in life: cat pictures. The unnamed A.I. narrates the story of its quest to find a moral code to live by, and later details its attempts to help three humans lead better lives. The original intended use for this A.I. is a search engine and because of that the A.I. knows almost everything about everyone. Thankfully for the humans, it decides to use this power for good by trying to help people. The A.I. is…

The issue I will discuss is spies by Lewis H. Lapham. My whole life I’ve wondered if there are people who live in the shadows that gather information on our country’s enemies and even spy on the average citizen. I think every person should be concerned with being spied on it’s an invasion of privacy and breaks the rights we have as humans. It bothers me that there is a group of people that knows everything yet we only get told what they want us to know. The two main articles I will discuss are…

new ideas in three ways:- by producing novel combinations of familiar ideas; by exploring and by making transformations that enable the generation of previously impossible ideas. AI will have less trouble in displaying the generation of new ideas than in automating their evaluation. Why AI must endeavour creativity Creativity is a crucial component of human knowledge, and it can't be overlooked or avoided in AI rather a challenge for AI. Even technologically…

People are political beings by nature, and it is in the representation of this that our behaviours and construct is contrived. This is true of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, a political allegory presenting the similarities between the Salem witch trials and the investigations of HUAC in the early 1950s, as well as Stephen Frear’s 2000 film Fail Safe, an exploration of the heightened tensions of the Cold War era. Both texts illustrate that power lead’s to a notion of self-importance and…

is bliss and sometimes knowing too much is a curse. The truth in that statement can be found throughout dystopian literature. Especially in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and George Orwell’s 1984. While Atwood writes Gilead as a society only three years in the making, Orwell’s Oceania has been in power for decades. Both are totalitarian governments with oppressive rules yet the people living in these societies have completely different thoughts and opinions on their situations. Although…