ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Ray Kurzweil, an American inventor and also Director of
Engineering in Google Inc. once said that robots will be more intelligent (cerdas) than human by 2029. He is one of the world's leading
experts on artificial intelligence (A.I.). Mr. Kurzweil believes computers will
be able to learn from experiences, just like humans. He also thinks they will
be able to tell jokes and stories, and even flirt (merayu/menggombal)
girls. Kurzweil's 2029 prediction is a lot sooner than many people thought. In 1999,
many A.I. experts said it would take hundreds of years before a computer could surpass (melampaui) or at least be as sophisticated
(canggih) as human brain but he stated
for sure that it would not be long before computer intelligence is one billion (milyar) times more powerful than the human brain.
Mr. Kurzweil joked that many years ago; people thought he was a
little crazy by predicting computers would be as intelligent as humans. His
thinking has stayed the same but everyone else has gradually changed the way
they think. He said: "My views are not
radical (umum) anymore. I've actually stayed consistent. It's the rest of
the world that's changing its view." He highlighted (menyorot) examples
of high-tech things we use, see or read about every day. These things make us
believe that computers do have intelligence. He said people think differently
now: "Because the public has seen things like Siri (the iPhone's
voice-recognition technology) where you talk to a computer; they've seen the
Google self-driving cars." He added.
Kurzweil’s previous
predictions included giving a computer eight years to beat a world chess
champion (it took seven), driverless cars which Google has almost perfected,
and ‘Iron Man’ style; body armor (pelindung tubuh) for injured soldiers (tentara), as currently being trialed by the US military. Kurzweil,
who takes 150 pills a day and is injected
(disuntikkan) with vitamins and diet
supplement every week, pushes his theory to “the singularity” - the moment in
the future when man and machine will intertwine
(jalin-menjalin) each other. In
echoes of 1980s hit movie, The Terminator, when robots rise to wipe out (menghilangkan) mankind,
Kurzweil predicts that once ‘the singularity’ has been reached, machine
intelligence will be a billion times more powerful than all combined human brain
power.
Let’s discuss!
1.
Tell us how far you know
about artificial intelligence!
2.
To what extent you can
agree that machine will surpass people?
3.
How do you think the
impact once we rely almost everything on robots?
4.
Once you think we are
surrounded by machine, what do you think will happen to the environment?
5.
And so, what about human
interaction?
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