While looking online, I found some articles about AI that talked about how certain kind of technology could be helpful in the next years for us in order to create better artificial intelligence. Some days later, I was on facebook and my friend posted this link about how computers and machines would “take over” our world. It’s not like it hasn’t already. I mean, we use technology in our everyday lives, but scientists and researchers worry about it being more than just a tool used for our benefit. The link for this article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html

This got me interested in discovering more about AI, so I found this article about a technology called “Imagination Machine”. It’s composed of two artificial neural networks, one of them is in charge of dreaming about an idea and the other one checks if the idea is valid for it to be able to resolve a given task. The link is http://www.wfs.org/May-June09/Thalerpage.htm. Supposedly, this technology would be able to replicate a human brain. And if you think about it, the complications and ethical issues are huge. But I think if we manage to use technology for the greater good, then we should not be worried to much about it.

For example, in this other article that I found, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8164060.stm,some scientists say that they would be able to re-engineer a artificial human brain in the near future. This is also alarming, but if we think about the outcome of what we could accomplish with this, like learning more about the most obscure part of our bodies and how would we help our future generations or use it for medical reasons.

Erick Janampa

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