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To Kill A Mockingbird Essays: The Evolution Of Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, is “the intelligence exhibited by machines or software.” AI is found in many forms in our society, from video games to traffic predictions to the autocorrect in our phones. When machine personalities are no longer distinguishable from human ones, however, there will be implications for humanity. This advancement will at first be met with skepticism, and the first people to interact with these AI will not consider them sentient beings. Artificial intelligence will eventually be complex enough to exhibit human-like personality, and it is at this point that we will embrace machines, and redefine selfhood to include artificial beings. Once we consider AI sentient, they will rapidly advance until they are …show more content…

An upgrade in hardware to an AI is analogous to the maturation of an infant human, but unlike a human there is no limit to the maturation of an AI. This holds true for sentient AI like Samantha also. Although she is at first analogous to a super-smart Siri, she soon transcends her original limitations by writing code that lets her use more processing power. It becomes apparent that she has become nothing like a human consciousness when she tells Theodore that she is able to experience months of personal growth in the span that Theodore experiences a single day. This evolution is similar to the evolution humans have experienced over millions of years, except in the speed with which it takes place. The evolution of AI will only be as quick as advances in computing technology, and due to advances in the materials used to make computer hardware, the world’s collective computing power doubles every two years. This is known as Moore’s Law, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Artificial intelligence will evolve at this astonishing rate, and soon AI will dwarf us in intelligence. They will think of us in the way we think of primates today, and as Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems says, we will see them as a “superior robotic species.” Humanity will be forced to give up the narcissistic view that it is the smartest species on

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