Artificial intelligence may be one of the main topics of our historical moments, but it can be surprisingly difficult to define. in Interview clips for those over 30 aboveIsaac Asimov describes artificial intelligence as a phrase used in devices that do things that have been associated only with human intelligence in the past. In the past, it wasn’t that long, “Only humans could alphabetize cards.” Even on machines that can do it in almost a second, “You have an example of artificial intelligence.” Whether humans are particularly good at alphabetical ordering of cards or arithmetic, “the world’s cheapest computers can split and split more accurately than they can.”
Artificial intelligence can be seen as a kind of frontier. This allows computerized machines to take over tasks that they had previously had to do themselves, so they can move forward. “All industries, governments themselves, tax collection agencies, planes: everything depends on computers. There is a personal computer in the home, which allows you to do better, cheaper, more versatile, more. Such a job “doesn’t require any big ideas or great creativity. Leave it all to the computer. And you can leave it to yourself what a computer can’t.”
This interview was filmed Isaac Asimov’s vision of the futureThe final year of the life of the subject, the television documentary aired in 1992. I wonder how Asimov will make the world of 2025 and whether he sees him as complementary to artificial, natural intelligence rather than competition. “They work together,” he insists. “Each of them supplies a shortage of others. And together, they can both advance far more quickly than themselves.” However, as a science fiction novelist, he was hardly able to admit that technological advancements were not easy. “Are there any difficulties? Definitely. Is there anything you definitely don’t like? But we have to think about it now.
These are fair points, but what stands out most in the minds of the 21st century is what comes next. “It’s like the old days when cars were invented,” Asimov says. “If we were building cities with cars in mind, then it would have been much better if we could build cities for our pre-car age and barely find a place to put or drive cars.” However, the cities we enjoy most today are not new metropolitan cities that were built or expanded significantly several decades after World War II, but to be precise, it is the oldest ones where cities were built that looked like the scale of human human beings on the streets. Perhaps, upon reflection, we will do our best to maintain as many elements of the pre-ai world as possible.
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