This week gave me an excuse to re-watch Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence. While before I thought it was a pretty entertaining movie (except the drawn out ending) this week's reading gave me a new perspective. Where the first time watching the differences between myself and the character played by Haley Joel Osment were black and white now I can see there are definitely shades of grey.
What really makes us that different. Now the only criterion that I can gather is that we as humans are the creators and that makes us superior, and for the record that is really what were searching for when we discuss the differences between humans and AI-- who is superior.
In the end we are superior because without humans AI could not exist. There may come a day when robotic surgeons replace its human counter-parts, just as robots are used now for dangerous combat missions in lieu of soldiers. Then AI could definitely be responsible for creating human lives. Those days however are not here yet, so as humans our position on the top of the food chain is safe-- for now!
it's interesting to hear how your opinion has changed as a result of thinking and reflecting about the material!
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