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本帖最后由 jellyjar 于 2010-1-29 22:39 编辑
159"The human mind will always be superior to machines because machines are only tools of human minds."
Nowadays, with the popularity of some science fictions concerning wars between robots and humane being, we are beginning to throw light on the relationship between machines and humane. Some even worry about what is in the sci-fic may come to reality one day. However, I fundamentally agree with the speaker that machines will never dominate human life because they are manmade and designed to serve people.
First and foremost, there is no denying that the ability of machines, even the magic artificial intelligence, are inferior to humane intelligence. Any contrast points of view may result from the ignorance of the fact that what kind of complicated jobs the machine can do depends on how people produce it. Considering robots, the protagonist in many science fictions, people's mastery of machine languages enable them to understand the instructions of human and the fundamental application of electronic engineering endows them with the ability to do mechanic work such as sweeping the floor or making tea. the more advanced the robots are, the more crystallization of human wisdom are used to produce them. Undoubtedly, humane minds are more complicated and unfathomable than machines, which have no ability to form thoughts or to take action unless the programs are input and the digit signals are given. Without the scientists' mastery of such technology, the so-called robots, even the "deep blue" which triumphed world champion on chess, are merely combination of steel and wires.
Moreover, machines are designed to meet people's needs, as a result of which machines must bring convenience to people instead of dominating people. For instance, to release housewives from heavy housework, we created washing machines and microwave ovens; to insure the safety of workers and ameliorate their working conditions, oil pumps were developed to take place of labour work in mines; to enlarge profits of companies, assembly lines are used to improve efficiency of production. None of us can conjure up a single example of machine that can be an end itself without purpose or utilitarian function for humane. Although some people may argue that machines can do a lot of work out of our physical and mental power such as lifting gigantic rocks or finishing millions of calculations within one minute, whatever dramatic capacity of machines, they are tools to serve human being and the every aspect of them are under human control.
Admittedly, there exist some problems caused by the use of machines. On the one hand, many people are complaining about the difficulties to get familiar with the machines especially when hundreds of kinds of machines are taken into use with more and more functions. Since learning how to operate them is a pre-requisite of taking advantages of them, the benefits and enjoyment brought by machines far outweigh the pains and energy to take before. Besides , with the fast development of science and technology, there are enough reasons to believe that in the future the operation of machines will be simplified to facilitate users in every aspect. On the other hand, layoff rate has increased because employers are in favor of the high efficiency of mass production with machines. But meanwhile people's enthusiasm about handcrafts have aroused the income of tailors and weavers hundreds of times, which is the very evidence that human labor is more valued and still keeps its priority to machines in modern society.
For the final analysis made above, despite some negative effects, it is quite fair to characterize machines as tools of human. And insofar as human have unique capacity for independent thinking, subjective judgement and emotional response, it is reasonable to claim that human will maintain our superiority to machines especially when human are continuing to explore unknown areas and make breakthroughs. |
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