I love the way it feels,i like how it can't electrocute me when it's underwater I like it so much I feel like we have a special thing going on. I love it even more than i love my cat. Now,I don't have a cat,but if i did it would rank lower on my list of priorities. There are laws that protect cats and animals in general.Those laws forbid the toruring and killing of animals in an inhuman way. My toothbrush doesn't share the same rights. Who decides weather,in 50,60 or even 20 years,a robot that was programmed to learn and becomes self-aware has the same rights as the cats do.As we do? Should we be afraid of AI? The field that studies and makes predictions about self-aware and automated devices is called RoboEthics. There is a big debate going on about what moral boundaries are there to making robots that can possibly harm us. Some people feel like we can control whatever intelligence we create with a set of rules. They think that programming a robot to be "morally aware" and to distunguish right from wrong,altho not easy,would end the problem of AI murdering us all in our sleep. A popular sci-fi author Isaac Asimov,on whose books movies like "I Robot" with Will Smith and "A halhatatlansg halla" with Jcint Juhsz were made.You might now some of those more than others.He wrote a set of rules called the Three rules of Robotics. The first one is The robot must never harm a human.[EXPLAIN] The robot must always obey humans orders unles it conflicts with the first law.[EXPLAIN] A robot must do everything he can to protect itself if it doesn't conflict with
the first or the second law.[EXPLAIN]
They have to go in that order otherwise robots become war machines. Isaac spent the rest of his writing career testing those laws in a lot of theoretical situations.And it turns out,they don't work all that well. A lot of you right now are thinking "oh this is a cool presentation,i really like it and i think the presenter should get an A but i wont need dis" but you would be wrong.America,Russia and Korea are already using unmanned drones to spot people that should not be there and predict terorrist attacks.There is a turret on the South Korea border that detects movement and then reports to the generals that give it a command to shoot or not.Soon those generals might become obsolete and then we are dealing with a robot apocalipse.Not sure how many of you watched The Terminator but that is what AI in Millitary is all about.Creating atonomous droids that protect a certan group of people from another.And if you don't have the techonolgy yet,well,too bad. AI is progressing much faster than we thought and robots realising they exist might easily become something we have to deal with relatively soon And hopefully ,in the notsodistant future,when my tootbrush asks me what its purpous is we would already have had a set of laws that would tell me weather i am or not allowed to pull a plug on it. Thank you