Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Fight Club: New Romantics in the Computer Age

Pro-article (Loftus):

  • We see computers taking over jobs
  • The romantics are becoming fewer, but they are very dedicated in their work
  • "People eventually want their souls stirred"
  • A computer can diagnose a sick child, but the doctor is the one who actually helps the patient
  • There is no emotion in lines of code
    • nothing is quite like the nurturing care of a human being
  • IT'S NOT THE SAME!
    • computers do not have soft arms; they cannot hug you
  • Emphasis on computer interaction: children will not interact with humans emotionally or personally
    • elimination of empathy/sympathy; computers cannot self-express like humans
    • Computers eventually take away love from the world
  • Computers cannot have or express feelings


Opposition (Krupowicz):

  • Computers can take over what humans do because programs are modeled after human thought
    • programmed BY a human, FOR a human
  • Computers will need to become more and more comparable to the way that humans work/think
  • There are still artistic occupations, but eventually computers will be able to take over every job humans can do as long as humans are able to program them
  • Computers can start to see connections
  • Computers are programmed by people with emotions; they can represent those emotions
  • Singularity: computers become completely self-aware and can function independently; they become more intelligent than humans
    • at this point, computers will be able to act at a higher level than people

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