Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is fascinating because of the vast implications it will have on our society. There are so many facets of our culture that will become radically warped that I believe even the most imaginative people cannot possibly predict all of the effects A.I. will have on us.
That element of the unknown is what intrigues me the most. How will A.I affect war? Health care? Travel? Entertainment? Food industry? Sex industry? There’s a virtually limitless pool of outputs to any of these questions depending on how the input varies.
Of course there’s the question of how much control over ourselves to we give to A.I.? How much is too much? We’ve already become largely dependent on computer systems. People fear what they don’t understand, so there has always been an inherent sense of caution within people regarding self-aware machines.
The Matrix, my favorite movie ever, illustrates a very possible outcome of A.I. having too much control. There is absolutely zero reason The Matrix could not happen, or might already have come to pass. Could you REALLY prove otherwise? The mere fact that you cannot should get you thinking.
Recently I watched an animated version of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. After drawing parallels between The Cave and The Matrix, it’s obvious that the possibility of The Matrix has been considered for a long time.