In the 21st century, Known as the digital age we have made many advancements in the technological field. Technology fosters intelligence in humans because. We have developed smart assistants to help us around the house, we have everything connected and at our fingertips with the internet, and we have created early stages of A.I that could teach us anything.
Many companies such as Amazon, Google, Sony and recently Apple have been putting Bluetooth speakers with voice processing capabilities onto the consumer market. These speakers are known as “smart” assistants which have the ability to connect to other “smart” devices and help you out around the house. For example, if your cooking nachos in the oven and want to read In the meantime, you can say “Alexa set a timer for 5 minutes”and she’ll do it allowing you to sit back worry free while you take in more knowledge. Suddenly “oh no!” You went to take your nachos out of the oven and they all toppled over onto the floor, lucky for you-you just cleaned it so you pick them up only to realize there are crumbs all over the place, not to worry “Alexa clean the kitchen.” Suddenly your wifi enabled Roomba vacuum wheels its way over and cleans the mess for you while you sit down and enjoy your nachos. Before we had smart assistants we wasted lots of time cleaning and cooking now with start assistants we are free to sit back and relax whilst taking in all the knowledge we can.
There are quite a few people that hate the internet, they say it is filled with garbage that will rot your Brain almost like 3 bags of Sour Patch Kids. Although there are some bad aspects to the internet, for example, Drug sales, human trafficking, blood and gore, pornography, fake news, illegal gun sales, cyberbullying, Jake Paul, Logan Paul, T-series and many more. There are also many good things such as online databases that allow students and adults of all ages to access and learn from billions of university fact-checked articles on almost anything you can think of, there are also billions of videos teaching you how to fix your car at home, paint your house, clean your gutters and even make a 400,000 volt stun gun for $10. The internet has opened up so many options for us and now we can learn anything anywhere anytime.
The main worry with the introduction of A.I is that it will take over the world deeming that the only way to achieve world peace is to kill everyone on earth. Well there’s good news the a.i we currently use is not sentient and therefore cannot think for itself. A.I today is created by what’s known as a neural network almost like our brains but on a smaller simpler scale. Neural networks work by taking in information processing it and giving an output command. With the help of A.I’s like these we could problem solve many problems and change the world for the better, we could use A.I as a calculator for anything, make self-driving cars and even implant them in human making us so immensely smart by having everything no longer at our fingertips but having everything by our command.
Although some people may be skeptical, our intelligence is only rising and it will continue to with the development of new technology.
