In the article “Questioning the Hype about Artificial Intelligence”, Erik Larson offers a critique of the scientific opinions about AI potential. He also argues that human intelligence will always be superior to machine technology. Therefore, it is wrong to believe that AI technology will become more intelligent than humans.
Part One: Larson’s purpose
Erik Larson in his writing questions the hyper that has always existed concerning Artificial Intelligence (Larson 2). Artificial Intelligence is the reason why things that seemed scientifically impossible in the last decade are possible today. Artificial Intelligence is changing the world and revolutionizing the way things are done. With the level of its growth, it has become inevitable and its advancement is proportion to human advancement. AI has a disadvantage of replacing humans and making them look like pets by the super-intelligent machines (Larson 3). The humanist disagrees with the subtle shift and says that human intelligence cannot be replaced by the Artificial Intelligence.
Part Two: The Hyper
Worries about artificial intelligence
Some people have worries and fears that advancement in artificial intelligence may bring a lot of downside to the humanities. Their major worry is singularity meaning that when Artificial Intelligence arrives then the human will no longer be the most needed creature in the world. AI is coming very fast and changing the society very fast and this changes can be a threat to human existence. Artificial intelligence can literarily bring an end to humans. Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have expressed their views about AI and Elon has invested $ 10 billion to avert the development of Artificial intelligent that can threaten the existence of humans (Bostrom and Eliezer 326).
Platforms that discuss the dangers of AI
Specialist magazines like wired have taken the lead in discussing the effects of Artificial Intelligence. Other Media like the New York Times has also followed the lead and written many articles that discuss this subject. In recent years, there are also many books that have been written about the effects of AI.
Part Three: The Humanists
Real intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and human intelligence can be compared to false religion and real religion respectively. Artificial Intelligent cannot replace human Intelligent. Relaying on Artificial intelligent like Google is only making human stupid by preventing them from using their own intelligence (Carr’s 48). Machines and AI cannot become intelligent in the way humans are. Thus, machines and other technological tools cannot save or kill the human and tools should not be glorified at the expense of humans (Larson 3). [G1]
Human standards
Carr and Andrew Keen have criticized companies like Google and Web 2.0 for killing human standards. The Big Data and AI have continued to be used by companies like Facebook and Twitter to produce blogs and this has killed human literacy and killed journalism Larson 3). Other Web Apps like Wikipedia have continued to sub-serve the goals of projects as anonymous people continue to feed information to the site. Many more humanists have come to agree that human innovation and technology growth cannot succeed to replace human intelligence.
Part Four: The Framing Idea
Recommendation
The human standard should be emphasized more than smart robots and Artificial Intelligence. The hype about AI is harmful if we destroy the human standards and intelligence and allow people to value tools above themselves. The new humanities state that subtle shift from focusing on humans to focusing on machines is a wrong way of thinking. Humanities thinking that people should not be silent about the scenario of a world where machines are more important than humans. It will mean that the glory of man is fading at the expense of tools and machines.
Works cited
Bostrom, Nick, and Eliezer Yudkowsky. "The ethics of artificial intelligence." The Cambridge handbook of artificial intelligence (2014): 316-334
Carr, Nicholas. "Technology: Techno-fix troubles." Nature 495.7439 (2013): 45-68
Erik Larson. Questioning the Hype about Artificial Intelligence. The Atlantic. (2018). Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/the-humanists-paradox/391622/ [Accessed 9 Oct. 2018].
Keen, Andrew. The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the rest of today's user-generated media are killing our culture and economy. Hachette UK, 2011. 75-98
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