Robots or pushing humans into "incompetent freedom"

The development of artificial intelligence and robotics is blurring the boundaries between man and machine. In many respects, such as the data processing ability, exploration ability, knowledge reserve ability and so on, the machine has already surpassed the human and replaces the social function which originally was completed by the human, from this aspect example already numerous. On the bright side, the more efficient machines freed humans from a lot of repetitive work, the fear of unemployment caused by robots is spreading.

Another sense of "freedom under incompetence"

Fundamentally speaking, the robot with artificial intelligence is the imitation of human consciousness, thought and behavior, although at the present stage of parody, imitation is already a dangerous signal for human beings. At present, a large number of robots have been removed from the imitation phase, into the formal use of the stage, many pipeline workers because of the emergence of the robot to unemployment. The ability of humans to empower machines also means that they lose the same capacity.

Of course, as with the advent of computer technology, as the old jobs are replaced, new jobs appear, and machines deprive humans of a certain ability and empower or force humans to do the same, such as manipulating computers. Perhaps as robots play an increasing role in human society, how to manipulate robots will become a necessary skill for future generations, and will also spawn more jobs. In this way, it may be appropriate to ease the job scare caused by robots.

But things are not so rosy. The bigger problem comes along. The work that replaces humanity itself is only part of the robot's ability, and the other part is the work that human beings cannot do. such as deep-sea exploration operations, space exploration and so on. The future of human work may be entirely dependent on robots, the role of humans will be robot operators, leaving the robot, human will become "find". So, are humans manipulating robots or robots manipulating humans?

Just as today we leave the computer, mobile phone and other intelligent tools can not start work, the future robot will become an integral part of human life. Perhaps we should really panic not the emergence of robots, but the disappearance of robots. When we leave the robot, we will be overwhelmed by the degradation of our ability. Just as we lose our computers today, we are anxious to get out of office in a modern office environment.

Eric Hofer in his book, "Fanatics," to divest individuals who are not yet fully prepared from the collective is tantamount to pushing them to "freedom under their own incompetence", and the liberation of human productivity by robots will push humanity into another sense of "freedom under incompetence", When the robot completely replaces human beings in social production, then human beings achieve some degree of freedom, but in this sense of freedom, we will find that we become find when we leave the machine.

Perhaps, for the emergence of artificial intelligence and robots, what humans lack is not the preparation for their arrival, but rather the future loss of artificial intelligence and robotics.

The warning of ancient Greek mythology

In Ancient Greek mythology, there was a monster in the body of a lion called the Sphinx, it stood on the edge of the cliff, stopped the passing pedestrians, with the riddle imparted by the Muse to ask them, guess that the people will be eaten by it, the riddle is: "What animals in the morning with four legs, walk at noon with two legs, night with three legs walk?" When he has the most legs, he walks the slowest and the weakest. ”

The riddle, of course, is now well known, and the answer is "man." But in myth, only the tragic figure that killed his father and married his own mother, Oedipus, answered, and the Sphinx killed himself by jumping in shame. Many people know this story, but often overlooked a detail, is the sphinx of the human face represents knowledge and wisdom. What I want to say is that artificial intelligence has surpassed human beings in the ability to store knowledge, and future robots will be like the Sphinx because they have more knowledge than humans.

The problem is that if we give the machine more knowledge and wisdom without restriction, there will not be a second Oedipus to defeat the monster in the face of the lion, so that the robot can play an absolute dominant role in the society. At least on the psychological level, the possession of more knowledge will bring some degree of shock to mankind, like our knowledge of more knowledgeable people are often respected and embraced the same.

When we are confronted with robots that are more knowledgeable than we are, and though we do not have to worry about being eaten, the lack of knowledge is enough to make human beings fail to speak.

To recreate a tower of Babel.

The Bible records that humans dissatisfied with the status quo, in order to prevent the recurrence of disasters such as floods, unite to build a tower of Babel to Heaven, and later was discovered by God, using the means to use different languages to prevent the project. Today, people dissatisfied with the status quo are committed to the creation of robots, is tantamount to building a babel.

As to what the end of the tower is, man neither knows nor knows. Perhaps a new world may lead to disaster, but one thing is to be sure that there is no "God" obstruction.