The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: What are the Consequences of our Technology? :: Technological Papers

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence What are the Consequences of our Technology? macrocosmThe scientific field has advanced to whatsoeverthing far more than what people could begin imagined just a half a century ago. The technological gyration has changed the lifestyle of societies just as the Industrial revolution changed the lifestyle of Europe. Who would direct imagined the Internet and computers in most homes, when a computer could barely chalk up into an entire building, much less intelligent machines? Artificial Intelligence is an challenging technology that will shape the human lifestyle of the future. Restricting question and progress in the field is hardly a feasible toil in todays world. More realistically, we should monitor and keep the technology in a realistic and safe progression. HistoryArtificial intelligence folklore has been traced back to the multiplication of Ancient Egypt. But the birth of artificial intelligence as some would call it, was in 1956 at the Dartmouth conference. The conference was based on cardinal theories, the principle of feedback theory and the Logic Theorist. The principle of feedback theory was observed by Norbert Wiener. He theorized that all intelligent behavior was the exit of a feedback mechanism. An physical exertion would be a temperature control system that simply checks the temperature of the room, compares the reading to the craved temperature, and adjusts the flow of heat to bring the room to the desired temperature. Then in 1955, Newell and Simon developed The Logic Theorist. The Logic Theorist was a program that represented every problem as a tree. The program would attempt to forge a problem by selecting the branch that would most likely result in the correct solution. Then in 1956, John McCarthy1 organized the Dartmouth group to draw interest and talent to the field of artificial intelligence.2 Finally nearly a decade after the Dartmouth Conference, Centers for artificial intelligence res earch began to work at Carnegie Mellon and MIT. Further advancements were made in the field. The General Problem convergent thinker (GPS) was developed based on the Wieners feedback principle. The GPS was capable of solving a great range of common sense problems.As the field progressed, the LISP linguistic process was created. LISP became the language of choice among the artificial intelligence developers. The in 1963, the section of Defenses Advanced research projects Agency (ARPA) gave MIT a 2.2 million dollar appoint to be used in researching Machine-Aided Cognition or artificial intelligence. This collide with by the US government was to ensure that the United States have the technological advantage over the Soviet Union.