Hello readers
Hope you all are fine.
To err is
human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul
R.Ehrlich
Technology is marching at swift pace and
becoming more intelligent, advanced and automated each day, is it healthy
for the society? Well actually it is a debate, I was reading about monoacting and its
difficulties, then I came across an article about monolog debates, I was very
much interested and I have read the basics and I am excited to try it out in my blog today.
So the rules of monolog debate is simple, the
speaker will present his /her debate with both the “for” and “against” and the audience
will provide a feedback and be part of either the “for” or the against.
In my case I would present you the debate you
could take sides through the comment box seems simple? So Let’s begin.
The topic “Robots and artificial intelligence
a boon or a bane for planet earth”
Robots or automata (first word coined for
robots by Egyptians) commonly called as droids have been part of human civilization
from ancient times, and they have always been made in the spirit betterment of
human society and automation to minimize the human effort in doing mechanical
work.
At times they have also been used to protect civilizations
for instance in ancient Asia there is a scripture which describes how Buddha’s relics
were protected by robots called bhuta Vahana Yantra from Roma Vishay (Rome).
Leonardo Da-Vinci a great inventor and artist
around the year 1495 built a robot which acted like a mechanical knight to
protect his king!
In modern period post-industrial evolution we
can see robots are on a high run used in almost all industries which has definitely
helped in building better products with great precision and quality.
So will there be a day where we end up being
ruled by droids? There ends the “for” part of my debate.
Now I will try contradicting all the good I spoke
about robots.
Even though robots are helping us so much are
there not risks involved? Well you may ask what the risk is of course a human has
programmed it and you can pull the plug out and it becomes just a junk of metal
instantly. But this is not as easy as it is told with the concept high security
control rooms and panels there will be definitely levels of access and steps
which you might need to take before you could just switch it off!
But there was recent news on the internet
about Facebook which absolutely shocked me. Read this!
Article
Source: Andrew Griffin for the Independent.co.uk
Facebook
abandoned an experiment after two artificially intelligent programs appeared to
be chatting
to each other in a strange language only they understood.
The two
chatbots came to create their own changes to English that made it easier for
them to work – but which remained mysterious to the humans that supposedly look
after them.
The bizarre
discussions came as Facebook challenged its chatbots to try and negotiate with
each other over a trade, attempting to swap hats, balls and books, each of
which were given a certain value. But they quickly broke down as the robots
appeared to chant at each other in a language that they each understood but
which appears mostly incomprehensible to humans.
The robots
had been instructed to work out how to negotiate between themselves, and
improve their bartering as they went along. But they were not told to use
comprehensible English, allowing them to create their own "shorthand",
according to researchers.
The actual
negotiations appear very odd, and don't look especially useful:
Bob: i can i
i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls
have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to
Bob: you i everything
else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls
have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me
Bob: i i can
i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls
have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me
Bob: i . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls
have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to
Bob: you i i
i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls
have 0 to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to
Bob: you i i
i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls
have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to
But there
appear to be some rules to the speech. The way the chatbots keep stressing
their own name appears to a part of their negotiations, not simply a glitch in
the way the messages are read out.
Indeed, some
of the negotiations that were carried out in this bizarre language even ended
up successfully concluding their negotiations, while conducting them entirely
in the bizarre language.
Thanks for the independent for the article;
so what happened above is it not shocking?
It’s just out a James Cameron’s science
fiction series “Terminator- the Judgement day” well the imagination of this
great guy proved out it be an inexplicable reality!
So too
much automation and building humanoid robots may fade away what we believe to
be real world and make it a more programmed world, and we becoming slaves to the
automata one day?
Doesn’t you feel a chill from the back of
your spine? It is terrible to think that
such a thing happened at Facebook who knows it could have happened somewhere else
but it would not have been reported.
So we are talking about artificial intelligence
and the ultra-modernization of society, but I definitely sense that it is a
double edged sword it can hurt its creators a pretty nasty cut, imagine a day
when you here a news that some density of population just devastating due to
some malfunctions in artificial intelligence bots which controlled a nuclear
rocket triggered itself with such type negotiate machine language?! With some
other military bot?
Conclusion:
There are for sure superb applications where
robots and artificial intelligence gadgets can be and should be used and are
being used which would help reduce human
life risk and also has whole lot of advantages, but I am not sure using it as companion, a war
assistant ? I think that place should
always be reserved to the most skilled humans no one else.
Too much control given to machines with
lesser supervision by us will only risk the survival of mankind and all the
animals.
Please think and discuss with your peers and
let me know your feedback.
