Artificial Intelligence is used by Social Media?

Apparently the reason why we get notifications whenever a person messages us on Face Book or there is mostly topics interesting to us on the news feed is because they are using artificial intelligence. Face Book's system is an A.I that can recognize patterns based on how we interact with things and it delivers content that we find interesting in response. I think using artificial intelligence as a system increases a persons relationship with the social media platform because it caters to whatever the user likes instead of showing an advertisement that says ten interesting facts about ants. Also I think that Face Book is not the only social media platform using an A.I. Instagram's search feature shows a lot of pictures of people you do not follow. These pictures shown are based on whatever pictures you liked or what pictures the people you follow liked. In my opinion Instagram must us an A.I to do this because it is very similar to Face Book's A.I that shows only topics on the news feed that it thinks it would be interesting to you. Another platform that uses an A.I to cater to the user's interests is Twitter. Twitter introduced a feature called moments, it shows you news that you may find interesting just like Face Book's news feed which is why I suspect twitter is using an A.I as well. I believe that the more people use social media the more dependent they are on artificial intelligence which makes social media users post human. When people use social media they post pictures, tweets, and Face Book post which is stored information about themselves on the internet where everyone can see. Also people who want to stay connected with each other use social media websites to talk to each other. According to Katherine Hayeles as long as we are " “logged in” and using it, we are all using the same brain" (Jneiro, World press). Being logged in means that we all are sharing information  in some form with each other. Also In my opinion the use of the A.I. with Face Book no longer makes it a social network of people. Face Book is a network between humans and A.I because in order to find out if your friend posted something or if your friend messaged you the system's A.I has to notify you. Since the most an A.I can do today is recognize human patterns and deliver content a social media user finds interesting I think we are far away from Vinge's inflection point. Vernor Vinge is a mathematician and fiction writer who has an idea called inflection point. Inflection point is when artificial intelligence outsmarts humans. In my opinion the only way this can possibly happen is that if intelligent robots were able to learn engineering in an instant instead of going to school for a couple of years.

Apple vs FBI

I get that the FBI just wants to prove that the shooter is guilty and wants to give the victim’s families closure but what they are asking Apple to do is very risky. If I was Tim Cook I would respond to the government's outrageous court order by saying "for the sake of privacy I will have to say no to creating a back door on my Apple products". "I think it is not right to allow the FBI access to everyone's IPhone information because there is always something on everyone's IPhone they want to keep private"(me as Cook). The reason why I would respond like that to the government is because I would definitely not like it if they knew everything about everyone just from the information on their IPhone. In my opinion it just gives the government too much power. Unfortunately, the government will probably get what they want which will impact an IPhone user's human rights because their "security of person" (UN Universal of Rights, article 3) will be compromised. But at least everyone's right to live safe will increase because criminals will not be able to use encrypted IPhones anymore. But if Apple gets their way then IPhone user's right to privacy is saved because the "back door" will not be made but our right to live safely is compromised due to criminals still having an encrypted IPhone to use. Finally in my opinion I think that what ever side wins a right will be compromised.

I see A.I.’s as the more advanced solider, doctor, engineer, piolet, and astronaut. But to be honest I think A.I’s could take over every job due to how smart they will be. I would like hospitals to use A.I.’s as surgeons because in my opinion a robot would have more steady hands then a human. But once they replace human soldiers it would be good and bad at the same time. It would be good because men would not have to die at an early age. Unfortunately, A.Is replacing human soldiers would be violating Martens Clause which was added in 1977 to “ban weapons that violate the principles of humanity and the dictates of public conscience” (417, Berkeley Professor). Soldier robots would be equipped with weapons of mass destruction which is what the Clause is supposed to protect us from and would give the A.Is the possibility to overthrow humans. Also a robot may not be able to differentiate between regular human activity and hostile activity. The only way robots could be soldiers without violating Martens Clause would be to equip them with normal weapons and have meaningful human control. Meaningful human control is having a person watch the actions of an A.I. behind a screen and by using command buttons the person watching can either stop or give the A.I. authority to kill a human. An article on the guardian talks about how the UN is debating about their autonomous weapons. They are deciding if they should ban autonomous weapons or not because of how dangerous they can be. If the world is not comfortable with just robots controlling weapons for example a turret then how could we possibly be ready for A.Is replacing soldiers.

2001: A Space Odyssey

After watching 2001 A Space Odyssey I had to think about the movie for a long time to understand what it was about. At first I thought it was the strangest movie I have ever watched and it did not portray any point at all. But after thinking about the movie I realized it was about technology advancement. The apes would fight another tribe of apes for resources. Then a magical rock appeared and made one of the apes smart enough to use a bone for a weapon after the ape touched the rock. Then the next scene in the movie shows the new technology of the bone club being used for the first time when the ape tribe kills the other tribe’s leader. Then it fast forwards to humans finding the magical rock on the moon and when the humans touch the rock, the technological advancement of artificial intelligence happens. Artificial intelligence by the name of Hau 9000 is shown piloting a space ship in the next scene. After Hau 9000 blames his diagnostic error on the humans and reads their lips saying they will shut him off. Hau 9000 tries to kill them which relates to the ape tribe with a greater technological advancement attacking the other tribe to prove who is superior. Then the movie fast forwards to an astronaut in another dimension where he ages extremely fast. When the astronaut is on his deathbed and about to die the magical rock appears and turns him into a baby. Which shows the evolution of immortality. Each scene in the movie is showing the advancement of technology whenever something touches the magical rock. In my opinion the movie was silly but it does have a good point that in the end our technology advancements will lead to immortality. I know that there was no technological advancement made in the last scene when the magical rock turns the old astronaut into a baby but it is possible that at the end the old man telepathically controlled the magical rock.

“We need to understand that five hundred years of humanism may be coming to an end as Humanism transforms itself into something that we must helplessly call post-humanism”(1, Hayles).

Hayle defines humanism as a form of post-humanism because of the advancement in technology. I define humanism as living free and being human. As a human we all look, think, and talk different. That is what makes us unique in my opinion. Hayle defines Post-Humanism is an “entity that can flow between carbon-based organic components and silicon-based electronic components to make protein and silicon operate as a Single system” (9, Hayles). I define Post-humanism as artificial intelligence. Post-humanism takes away the natural self and freedom of an induvial. Also as a Post-human everyone would look and think the same which is the complete opposite of humanism.  Unfortunately there will be a point where intelligent machines will take over the world and humans become obsolete. In my opinion a business owner would not hire an employee who needs to take breaks, sleep, and days off when they can hire an intelligent machine that can work non-stop. Even though The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics viewed human beings as "information-processing entities who are essentially similar to intelligent machines"(14, Hayles). Humans will never be able to process the amount of information an artificial intelligent can. This is why artificial intelligence is our next step in evolution. I hope that the intelligent machines will be able to live peacefully among us and help us cure diseases.