Man vs Machine

 

     Growing up in the 1980s the "The Terminator" was a very popular movie set in the distant future. Now as technology accelerates at an incredible rate we are left wondering how far we are from this science fiction movie becoming a reality. Will we live to see a time in which machines take over the human race? In "The Terminator" computers become so smart that they became self aware and rebel against their creator..(sound familiar)? I can assure everyone that this will never happen. The reason I am so confident in this is simple logic. A computer can ONLY do what it is programmed to do. If machines turn on humans it will be because they are programmed to, but we would know all their moves.

    There is no doubt that the human race will continue to build some very realistic "human-like" machines. These are often referred to as Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) These A.I.s look human, sound human, and act human, but they will never be human. The most complex computer will never appreciate art or understand emotions. If a human creates a computer, the computer he creates will always be inferior to him. In other words.. I cant create something smarter than myself. Computers will always be programmed by humans, they will never learn on their own terms. Any learning that is done is only an illusion. It only learns what it's programmed to learn. Each year many new machines are made to make life easier and more efficient, they will never do more than this. Just like we can never be smarter than  God (our creator), a machine or computer will never become smarter than a human. A human can learn from mistakes and adapt to situations. A computer can only adapt to the choices it is programmed to make. We may not be made of metal and plastic but humans could be called the most complex machines in the world. Instead of steel we have skin, instead of gears we have cells, organs and muscles, instead of a program we have free will. We are complex, biological machines living independent of any pre-programmed decisions. This is called being alive. Computers will never have life. This will always be the difference between humans and machines.- BDB (Google Images)