War Between Man And Machines

Since decades, mankind has progressively accepted more and more robots in the everyday life and they will become more and more common in the future. And they will be much more sophisticated than modern robots. It started with basic stuff and now, we can share information all around the world without any problem. In fact, we tend to forget that robots are used in every field. Even our phones are robots. 69% of the world’s population will own a smartphone by the end of 2017. And we all know that change brings fear to human. Will robots turn on humanity? And make all the science-fiction movies a reality?

This debate goes back at least as far as the British code-breaker and father of computer science, Alan Turing in 1950, when he wondered: “Can machines think?”.

And the issue of intelligent machine taking control has been discussed in several popular movies. Well we can think about “Terminator”, “Robocop” or “2001, A Space Odyssey”. The common point is that human gives more responsibility to machines. Well in fact, if we think about it, this is already the case. On the one hand, this might be hand-held calculators, routine mathematical calculations or global positioning systems (GPSs). On the other hand, this might be systems for air traffic control or guided missiles. We give to machines these responsibilities for various reasons: save time, and as a result improve our productivity, but also improve the cost and our accuracy.

The famous scientist, Stephen Hawking was interviewed by BBC this month. He claims that “Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” His prediction is completely plausible; we already have completely functional artificial neural networks. If the machine can develop itself, the risks will be greater due to this delegation of responsibility.

To conclude this essay, I will say that there is no need to fear a possible war. If I can give an image, I would say that intelligence artificial could be like a Pandora box with monsters inside. But we are the creator of the monsters in the box. And if we can create it, we can limit it. They can maybe re-design themselves, but they can’t break their limits.

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