TED POLATLI COLLEGE / 11-A
Should Computers Dream ?
Görkem ARSLAN
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If I ask you “ What makes us a human ?” one of the answers would probably be our ability to dream .
The groundbreaking work of Herbert Simon and Allan Newell made a leap in the computing world . They designed a program , in December 1955 that could understand mathematics . The program was able to prove thirty-eight mathematical theorems from Russel ’ s “ Principia Mathematica ”. Since then , the artificial intelligence was used in most domains , and was developed really fast . The development resulted in the defeat of humans by the smart machines ; the most popular example for this would be the defeat of Garry Kasparov , the best chess player of all time , by Deep Blue .
After a while , the questions like “ Can they compose songs , can they draw , can they write a poem ?” started to rise . Yes , they can create art , just like you . For instance , a painting made by a computer named “ Portrait of Edmond
Belamy ” was sold for $ 430.000 . The view of the piece of art could not tell that it was drawn by a computer .
It is good that the AI makes life easier for humans , but that would not deny that we should also consider putting limitations to their capacities . A robot called Sophia once said that her biggest dream was taking control over the world and put humans into cages , the same way humans are caging animals . Moreover , there are two chat bots created by Facebook that created a language , which we humans have not been able to decode , yet .
As a beginner in the computing development area , I would say that humans should make sure they are not destroying our lives in the attempts of making it easier . Despite the exciting idea of making computers dream , humans should rather focus on how to restrict its dreams , or else we will end up living in a Terminator World .