Humans and machines: That is the question of our relationship. Ever since Frankenstein and the Terminator, humans have become more fearful of machines more than ever. We are scared of machines and our human-machine interrlations because of the media like books, movies, and religion. We have been taught under the "old paradigms" that "intelligence is an exclusive prerogative of humans." and that we are the creator, the master of the intelligence and our creations because we have a soul or consciouness. This faulty logic in our thinking is leading us down the wrong path of demonizing technology into human destroying machines reflected in Frankenstein, I Robot, the Terminator, and Orwell of course but the positives of our new relationship with machines can be found in the works of William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, and Bruce Sterling who like Pagliarini take on a "new Perpective" which not only embraces the real world but realizes that machine intelligence is our creation and we are simply passing down our intelligence to them. The Second Life is a perfect reflection of the new perspective. Literally and virtually, people create new cyberspace identities that work, interact in a 4-D sims like virtual world where people can create their own worlds, change their own appearance, and even buy and sell real and cyber real estate. WOW!!!!!! Imagine the possibilities of using this technology in the classroom to create virtual habitats with animals to interact with on a direct basis and etc. The possibilities for this technology are endless and not just for the classroom either but for museums, virtual travl/holidays, and etc. But all of this has a down side to it. Avatars in SL can be easily hacked into, people can steal or identity and use it for real, and later for virual reality simulators involving unethical behavior like cyber-drugs, cyber sex, cyber crimes and etc. As teachers, we should use all available technology like 2nd life and not be afraid of using it but we must be ethically aware of the dangers of overusing technology to teach our classes, and the possible abuse and misuse by students. i found the 2 articles extremely important and interesting not only as a fan of cyberpunk literature and AI and their philosophies but also important for me as a teacher to see what is out there for students to "discover" and play with but also the issues involved.
Old ideas, originating from a few, but very popular, scientific, philosophic and artistic theoretical constructs ahve simply been prejudicing and polluting the entire domain of human thought and the way we have been thinking about intelligent artefacts in the last century.
Now, although the fusion between natural and artificial intelligence is becoming a reality, it seems that we are not fully conscious of the changes that are taking place. Indeed, while we are aware of the fact that the agenda found in mobile phones is preplacing parto of the fucntionality of our long-term memory, we write and, therefore, how we think and communicate. in short, the symbolic system we are inheriting by the electronic culture is affecting our minds and is revolutionising our entire semeiotic system.
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Humans and machines: That is the question of our relationship. Ever since Frankenstein and the Terminator, humans have become more fearful of machines more than ever.
We are scared of machines and our human-machine interrlations because of the media like books, movies, and religion. We have been taught under the "old paradigms" that "intelligence is an exclusive prerogative of humans." and that we are the creator, the master of the intelligence and our creations because we have a soul or consciouness.
This faulty logic in our thinking is leading us down the wrong path of demonizing technology into human destroying machines reflected in Frankenstein, I Robot, the Terminator, and Orwell of course but the positives of our new relationship with machines can be found in the works of William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, and Bruce Sterling who like Pagliarini take on a "new Perpective" which not only embraces the real world but realizes that machine intelligence is our creation and we are simply passing down our intelligence to them.
The Second Life is a perfect reflection of the new perspective. Literally and virtually, people create new cyberspace identities that work, interact in a 4-D sims like virtual world where people can create their own worlds, change their own appearance, and even buy and sell real and cyber real estate.
WOW!!!!!! Imagine the possibilities of using this technology in the classroom to create virtual habitats with animals to interact with on a direct basis and etc. The possibilities for this technology are endless and not just for the classroom either but for museums, virtual travl/holidays, and etc.
But all of this has a down side to it. Avatars in SL can be easily hacked into, people can steal or identity and use it for real, and later for virual reality simulators involving unethical behavior like cyber-drugs, cyber sex, cyber crimes and etc.
As teachers, we should use all available technology like 2nd life and not be afraid of using it but we must be ethically aware of the dangers of overusing technology to teach our classes, and the possible abuse and misuse by students.
i found the 2 articles extremely important and interesting not only as a fan of cyberpunk literature and AI and their philosophies but also important for me as a teacher to see what is out there for students to "discover" and play with but also the issues involved.
Old ideas, originating from a few, but very popular, scientific, philosophic and artistic theoretical constructs ahve simply been prejudicing and polluting the entire domain of human thought and the way we have been thinking about intelligent artefacts in the last century.
Now, although the fusion between natural and artificial intelligence is becoming a reality, it seems that we are not fully conscious of the changes that are taking place. Indeed, while we are aware of the fact that the agenda found in mobile phones is preplacing parto of the fucntionality of our long-term memory, we write and, therefore, how we think and communicate. in short, the symbolic system we are inheriting by the electronic culture is affecting our minds and is revolutionising our entire semeiotic system.
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