Computers and us

Recently there has been a rise in new technologies having health related features that can tell you to hit the gym when you have been sitting on the couch for too long, such as the recently launched Samsung Galaxy S5. This is all of course aimed at making you healthier and that you have sufficient exercise. Add this to robot servants and the imminent self-driving cars and you have a future were you practically don’t have to do much. (That is if you can at least afford some of these devices.)

As computers continue to become smarter and smarter, we will find that people will have less to do. Computers will not rely heavily on continuous human instructions but will instead be able to learn from their own experiences and mistakes and improve from that.Designers say this style of computing will allow for robots that can walk and drive safely in the physical world, and also computers could start performing some of the basic human such as speaking and navigating.

Google is still working on its driver less cars, which are able to navigate and drive around without a human driver. The cars are powered by a software called Google Chauffeur. The cars are mounted with a laser radar which enable the vehicles to generate a three dimensional map of the environment. The car then compares these laser maps with high resolution maps of the world, producing data models that allow the car to drive itself. Pretty cool. 

                                   

GOOGLE Drive less cars.

                                                        

Just imagine knocking off from  work, chauffeured home by your Google car, jumping on your couch and have your maid cook your favorite, pork ribs and mash, except your maid isn’t exactly human. IBM has been working on a computer that thinks like people and has come up with the IBM food Truck. The computer is able to come up with its own recipes, and instructs chefs to prepare meals that have never been prepared. (If only they could they could fit a pair of arms and legs, it would make for the perfect girlfriend)

                                                                              

                                       

IBM food Truck.

Since these computers are starting to look more and more like the robots from science fiction movies shouldn’t we be worried about them rebelling against us and taking over the world like they do on TV. Since computers such as NOMAD, which has its own stimulated brain cells, continue to become smarter surely they will have to rebel one day, right? Kevin Warwick, author of March of the Machines: The breakthrough of Artificial Intelligence states that since computers are able to multitask and have a superior knowledge base in ways impossible to biological beings, this may give them opportunities to become much more powerful than humans and displace them.

                                                  

                                    

Will they take over?

                                                                  

However most scientists say this is an unlikely scenario to happen, rather than taking over robots will be there to assist humans. Robots being models of human beings can never be better than humans in all aspects. Rather humans and machine will become mutually dependable.Hope so.