“If superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a
few decades’, would we just reply, “Ok, call us when you get there we’ll
leave the lights on’? Probably not but this is more or less what is
happening with AI” This is a quote made by a person who relies on
technology to live and his name is Stephen Hawking.
Every week, every day , every hour we rely on technology either to keep
us entertained, such as mobile phones, or to keep us alive, such as
pacemakers. Over 60% of humans use technology every day. Most
teenagers spend around four to five hours on their phones. Nowadays the
only thing people care about is the right angle of the selfie they are about
to take or how many followers or friends they have on what ever social
media platform they are on. But what if one day the technology that we
rely on takes over and destroys mankind as we know it because one
day we will get so advanced in technology that we will just lose control of
it.
Right now this may all just sound like the beginning of a scifi movie such
as the ‘Terminator’ or any other movie based in the future. Technology is
a wonderful this but like all wonderful things, humans have a tendency to
twist it to their own means. Einstein once said, “Technological progress is
like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” Whilst there is no
machine that can identify visual objects or speech with the reliability and
flexibility of humans? we have already created a piece of technology that
can kill us all in just a matter of seconds. That weapon is called an atomic
bomb.
What I wonder about is how all this technology and knowledge will be
used. What is it going to be like in another fourty years or so? Will we still
be here? We have already taken millions of lives with the use of
technology. Not only is there a high possibility that the artificial intelligence …
