Week 10 ~ Games and Avatars in the Information Age

'[Kurzweil admits the potential perils of a cyborgian future. He cites the 2000 essay,] Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, ... We are being propelled into this new century with no plan, no control, no brakes.' ~ Bill Joy

Nowadays, we live in a world of cyborgs, cyborg society. Cyborgian technologies and systems pervade nearly every aspect of our modern lives. In fact, that you and I most praobably don't even aware, or even regard them cyborgian. There is a very high probability that we are a cyborg and are not even notice of it. In this modern world it is no longer a question of "if you are a cyborg," but rather, "what kind of cyborg you are."

We often watch film related to science fiction story about the progress of human technology in the future. But we do not deny that the human imagination as outlined in the film became an inspiration for future technological advances. 

For instance, the Star Wars films making inspiration about robots created in the present and this becomes a reality where there is now a real robot. Artificial Intelligence or AI is defined as intelligence exhibited by an artificial entity. Such systems are generally considered to be a computer. Intelligence was created and put into a machine (computer) in order to do the job as a human can do. Several kinds of fields that use artificial intelligence expert systems, among others, computer games (games), fuzzy logic, neural networks and robotics.

Although AI has a strong science fiction connotation, AI forms a very empirical branch of computer science, dealing with behavior, learning and intelligent adaptation in a machine. Research in AI involves the manufacture of machines to automate tasks requiring intelligent behavior. Including like, is controlling, planning and scheduling, diagnostics and the ability to answer customer questions, as well as handwriting recognition, voice and face. Things like that have become separate disciplines, which focus on providing solutions to real life problems. AI systems now commonly used in economics, medicine, engineering and military, as it has built in some home computer software applications and video games.

Cyborg, is the designation for the figure of a human-shaped robot and have tissue and blood like a human being, it's just that Cyborg uses the expertise of the system processor as the brain works. So the Cyborg can be identified with the human machine. Scientific predictions about the Cyborg set out like in the movie Terminator, AI, I-Robot, Star Trek, Alien, and several other films.

Differences with Humans and Cyborg?

The question now, 'Do you agree that you are cyborgian in nature?' Well, I myself unsure about this.  When Cyborg was highly ​​sophisticated technology can even be like a human then what's the difference robots with humans? This is true if you know. Is it possible that humans could create something similar on their own?   One thing we have to distinguish here is that robots do not have a soul like our living God's creation. Spirit robot is just a logic circuit which centered on the pattern of the system expertise.  

So that the robot does not have a heart and feelings, he did not know the pain except when prescribed for pain, do not know the sad, in love, not crying, hungry, thirsty, have children, want to pee.

But with technological advances in the next few decades, Cyborg will be made like that, have feelings and even could dream of during his sleep. But is this possible? Not to mention the sci-fi film AVATAR which was a Box Office in 2009, the film was even shown that people can make a replica of a human by using transplantation of human DNA with alien itself (in this case the planet Pandora Navi or human), thus the birth new human form. Hence, it is not possible in humans ultimately replicate itself with a network of robots so comes the real Cyborg (half-human half-robot or robot).
But whether this will happen? Still do not know because man himself is still developing the concept of Artificial Intelligence which is the forerunner in creating it a robot with expertise in advanced systems. We are looking for the truth later in the future…

Reference:

Robins, K. (2000). Cyberspace and the world we live in. In Bell, D. and kennedy, B.M (eds.), The cyber-cultures reader 

(pp. 77-95). London: Routledge.

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