After reading the debate "Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over Our Lives?", one of my previous beliefs about AI's has actually changed. I've always believed that as more robots get created, they will eventually replace human occupations. However, one of the debaters, Gary Kasparov, states differently.
Kasparov explains that even though robots may replace certain human jobs, new jobs will be created. For instance, he states "machines have been replacing humans since the first one was invented many thousands of years ago — and on the very next day it probably created new jobs when three people were needed to fix it." Robots can be seen as just new machines, and will definitely open up new jobs when they need maintaining and work. Another debater, Susan Bennett, argues that we don't use our brains as much because we have such easy access to AI's in our phones that'll do it for us. The more reliant we become on technology, perhaps the less intelligent we will become.
Personally, I believe that AI's are doing more harm for us than good. I am already super reliant on my phone, especially when it comes to using it for homework assignments. I am constantly searching up answers to questions, where certain quotes were in a book because I'm too lazy to search for the quote myself, steps to a math problem, and more. This all could be playing a role in making me less intelligent, instead of using my brain and trying to figure out the answers on my phone, I use a device that I have at my finger tips, as I'm sure most of us do.
-Brooke Wiersema
Unless you’re using a siri type software to aid you in those actions that you described, you aren’t really even being affected by AI. Looking up answers is essentially just looking through a large network of answers that have been uploaded from a person or computed from a human-created program. That would have still been possible without the recent development of AI. Bennett’s argument only pointed out that we are becoming more dependent on technology at the same time that AI is being developed, not that AI is the direct cause of it. Essentially, the problem that you described of being too reliant on your phone is caused by how accessible and convenient technology is, rather than how advanced AI is becoming.
ReplyDeleteI somewhat disagree with what you are saying. Although some are overly reliant on technology, it's ultimately up to you with how much you use (or don't use) the internet. Classroom alternatives like google classroom are beneficial to teachers and students. Students can access it at any point in the day, and from any device. Online resources, such as Khan Academy, offer help students may not get from a textbook. For teachers, many assignments online are self-grading, which take a load off teachers shoulders having a computer do the grading for them. All in all, too much of anything can become an issue. It's about achieving balance. In this situation it's about drawing a line between finding help and relying on the internet because of laziness. These modern conveniences are becoming more and more common, which may just lead us in a new direction.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your input. I also believe that now that more new and advanced technology is being created that we don’t have to think for ourselves anymore. I thought your mention of searching up answers to questions was really accurate and relatable to most of us. However, I don’t think that we’re just becoming stupider but lazy as well. Instead of using textbooks or dictionaries we just use of phones because like you said it is at the access of our fingertips.
ReplyDelete-Emma Reyna