Post by jmodglin on Oct 27, 2015 15:42:21 GMT
1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
Unfortunately any intelligence misused can become a problem from gun powder to moving type, put in the right hands and you light up or illuminate the world and the mind, in the wrong hands such as the case with Adolf Hitler and both are used to galvanize a nation to world war and racial persecution. I do believe, much the same as Ray Kurzweil, that artificial intelligence will far more good than it does harm. in fact any help that humans can provide themselves in their quest to understand the self, the world around and the universe as a whole is a benefit despite the risks. To paraphrase Socrates a bit “An unexamined life is a life not worth living.” Could this future be a combination of Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 with a dash of the Matrix? Well of course it could, but it could also be any number of other possible outcomes including Frank Herbert’s dune or the zombie apocalypse for that matter. In the end things will change and it is in our best interest to do whatever possible to augment that change for humanities best interests.
2.How has technology impacted your life?
Technology did not play a big part of my life growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s and did not really begin to impact my life until the 1990’s as I entered the professional work force, right as many companies were implementing CRM (client resource management) programs, turning certain activities such as pulling credit and filling out 1003 home loan applications from hours long to minutes long. Gone were the days of spending your whole afternoon with a loan officer combing over every credit lines, liabilities, trade line, bank statement etc to establish a credit score and overall credit worthiness was now done over the phone in about 30 minutes with all communications to the credit agencies happening in a minute or two combined with a client’s ability to simply fax over the necessary documentation in a moment’s notice made what used to be a long and arduous affair a simple and convenient one, sounds great until you consider that one of the effects of the ease of financial process was most probably the massive financial crash of 2008.
Unfortunately any intelligence misused can become a problem from gun powder to moving type, put in the right hands and you light up or illuminate the world and the mind, in the wrong hands such as the case with Adolf Hitler and both are used to galvanize a nation to world war and racial persecution. I do believe, much the same as Ray Kurzweil, that artificial intelligence will far more good than it does harm. in fact any help that humans can provide themselves in their quest to understand the self, the world around and the universe as a whole is a benefit despite the risks. To paraphrase Socrates a bit “An unexamined life is a life not worth living.” Could this future be a combination of Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 with a dash of the Matrix? Well of course it could, but it could also be any number of other possible outcomes including Frank Herbert’s dune or the zombie apocalypse for that matter. In the end things will change and it is in our best interest to do whatever possible to augment that change for humanities best interests.
2.How has technology impacted your life?
Technology did not play a big part of my life growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s and did not really begin to impact my life until the 1990’s as I entered the professional work force, right as many companies were implementing CRM (client resource management) programs, turning certain activities such as pulling credit and filling out 1003 home loan applications from hours long to minutes long. Gone were the days of spending your whole afternoon with a loan officer combing over every credit lines, liabilities, trade line, bank statement etc to establish a credit score and overall credit worthiness was now done over the phone in about 30 minutes with all communications to the credit agencies happening in a minute or two combined with a client’s ability to simply fax over the necessary documentation in a moment’s notice made what used to be a long and arduous affair a simple and convenient one, sounds great until you consider that one of the effects of the ease of financial process was most probably the massive financial crash of 2008.
