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The Singularity is the fifth epoch and according to science and philosophy is the merging of humans and computers (I learned this from my philosophy class).
I love that we keep saying in class that machines (smartphones), like Siri, Cortana, and websites like Google, Amazon, or social platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, know who we are or what we want to do, go or buy. If we remember our first reading, Alan Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” and his question ‘Can machines think?” I would like to believe that the future of digital media and society will be the merger of humans and computers as well. We are giving so much information to machines that in return we get many commodities. I hope that all of these will be for our benefit.
From the article Digital life in 2025, according to David Clark, “Devices will more and more have their own patterns of communication, their own ‘social networks,’ which they use to share and aggregate information, and undertake automatic control and activation. More and more, humans will be in a world in which decisions are being made by an active set of cooperating devices. The Internet (and computer-mediated communication in general) will become more pervasive but less explicit and visible. It will, to some extent, blend into the background of all we do.” So, the next YouTube video, the company Microsoft kind of give us an idea of what the digital future media will be, as seen through Microsoft Hololens. I do like this idea because it will help to communicate and explore other areas of interest.
Question # 1: If machines would be able think, do you think they would be able to develop feelings too?
Question # 2: Do you see yourself living in a place like the Microsoft Hololens think it will be?
To answer question #1, I don’t think machine can/will think. It probably will be programmed with a algorithm for predictive analysis, which will enable for it to come out with different solutions which may seem like the machine thinks. Machines are inanimate so it can’t develop emotions, it can only be logically programmable.
Your first question is interesting, because it brings up the problem people already have with artificial intelligence. Although computers are getting more and more advanced people do not believe computers can ever fully replace humans because they are unable to make moral decisions. I do not see computers ever being able to develop feelings the same way as humans because there is no algorithm that can me made up for the human brain or emotion.