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Nowadays people are debating about whether the developing technology would diminish the ability of humans. With more and more technological products produced by human beings, people become idler than they used to be. They would ask the Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs to help them with taking dictations, drawing pictures, making euphonious sounds, interpreting photographs, predicting the weather, doing calculating, playing games with children, and so forth. Furthermore, AI programs can play some of these tasks as well as, or better than, most humans. In a famous example, a supercomputer named Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. However, I highly doubt that can these phenomena attest that technology would surely diminish the ability of humans to think? As far as I concerned, scientists cannot remember or present every program with its progresses, whereas AI programs, as the ancillaries, can help scientists to simulate the complex progresses and perform them in an understandable way. However, AI programs are highly specialized for special tasks. And they cannot solve kinds of problems like humans. Can supercomputer Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in cooking without improve it? More and more people are engaged in initiating technology research, and make technology still develop. Technology will never satisfy humans because of their characteristics—insatiable, causing higher education standard needed. Consequently, people need to absorb new knowledge to make sure they won’t be eliminated by the society, which would make sure that the ability of humans to think for themselves would not be deteriorated. Furthermore, American philosopher John Searle admits that a program might produce replies to those of a person equally, but he argues that a program cannot understand anything it expresses. The machines with man-made programs are not saying or asserting anything at all, but merely outputting meaningless symbols that it has manipulated in accordance with purely formal rules. Searle asserts that human brains can ascribe meanings to symbols, thus deriving understanding, whereas metal and silicon cannot. I have to acknowledge that with the development of technology, some people may decrease their ability of thinking for themselves because of their internal personality. For example some people were good at calculating, but after scientists created calculators and they overused the machines, which led to a tragedy that those lazy people lost the ability to calculate without the little amazing machine. However, when humans need to solve the problems by using a convenient machine, which they should learn and would know how to operate it so that they can gain the newest skills abreast to the current technology and would not deteriorate their ability. Equally, there is no doubt that the society would definitely benefit from the developing technology because of the enterprise and ambition of human races. From the statements and expressions above, humans will obtain more knowledge with the developing technology for their own profits, following that would make technology better, and creating a cyclical system. So, it is easily and safely to arrive at the conclusion that the ability of humans to think for themselves won’t deteriorate with the development of technology. |
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