Robots of the Future

   The ideas of robots have been around for ages. People have always been searching for new ways to make their lives easier, more efficient, and accessible. In the next 20 years, I believe that almost everything will be automated or very close to it. Robots will be able to fill our cars with gas (if we are even using petrol cars), make our food, get anything we need, and help us with our day to day tasks. The biggest thing, and what I believe will be next with robots, will be home automation. In other words, we will have robots do our housecleaning/work for us. This includes cleaning, making beds, cooking, and standard living conditions upkeep. Other advancements with robots would most likely, like from the show Jimmy Newtron, automated fast food restaurants where everything is cooked, prepared, and given to you in a timely, efficient manner. 

   If I could afford a robot housekeeper in the future, I most likely would own one, but only if it is very reliable. I would not want one if they were just in beta, because I would not want to come home to a destroyed house, or have something lost or missing due to bad programming. In terms of a driverless car, I would want one, but only if it was from Google. I say things, because I find that Google is the most reliable when it comes to new technology. With the way their current tests are going with driverless cars, I am really looking forward to being able to use them in the future. I greatly believe that driverless cars will be a common standard of transpiration in around 20 to 40 years. 

   In 20 years, I believe that robots will not be able to talk to us, feel emotions, or make certain types of decisions for us. The most I think that they can do is clean, automate, and do mundane tasks for us. The biggest impact area for robots would be jobs. Many people will be laid off in the future and replaced with machines that can do their work more efficiently, and with less error. This could be a very large problem in the future. One of the largest areas that will face this problem, as stated earlier, would be fast food restaurants. The workers, when the automated cooking robots are made will be easily replaced, because the company will want to make the most money possible. Overall, I believe that in 20 years robots will have a great impact on our society and will have positive solutions to mundane tasks and will make our lives easier and more efficient. 

Topic Research Presentation Response

   I am responding to group five’s presentation about high performance computing. As far as gained knowledge from the presentation, I learned that high performance computing started in the 1960s and the fastest high performance computer right now Tiante-2 located in Japan. Other than those two pieces of information, I learned everything else they said in class. Even though I knew most of the information given in the presentation, it was a very good refresher and was still very interesting to me. The info also provided a good background and understanding of beocat at our school.

   The group did a very good job covering their material. Each of them went into a great amount of detail on their slides and subject. The resources used was a standard powerpoint and they rarely looked it, because they had all of the information memorized. As for additional information, I would have gone into more detail about the raspberry pi, because those hold some cool information and are a great subject to talk about. I liked what the one person did with their personal project with the raspberry pi. The presentation kept my attention, but they presenters lacked in voice changes so it was a bit hard to stay focused. I felt more like I had to think about staying focused than I was intrigued by the topic. 

   After seeing the presentation, I wanted to know more about the raspberry pi’s and what possible future benefits can we held with them. Super computing is very interesting to me, but was a hard topic to talk about. The group did a very, very good job staying on topic and expressing their knowledge to the class. Another thing that I learned about high performance computing is that Green 500 measurement scale. The Green 500 measurement scale is a scale used to measure how efficient a super computer is at doing its algorithm and how many floating points it uses per watt. 

   Overall, I found this presentation to be very amusing to me. I thought that the subject was very well covered, the group seemed to work together well, and facts were very informative. If I were to just learn about high performance computing today from them, I feel like I would be able to answer a good amount of questions about it. This group did a very good job, and I am looking forward to future presentations that they give.  

Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence?

   I believe that in our future we will have great advancements to technology, but we will never reach the point where technology will be smarter than us and be able to “take us over.” My reasoning behind this is that computers are only as smart as the users who created them. Sure, we can make computers use very advanced algorithms to look up answers to a problem, but they will never be capable of perceiving, having, or understanding emotions like humans can. With this being said, we can fully see that the so called “robots” will not be able to become power hungry and take us all over. 

   In 50 years, technology will be far more advanced than we think it will be. So far, we are working on technology with data analytics and RFID tags that will help us with shopping, living, and day to day tasks. For example, in the future, you can wake up walk into your shower have it already turned on to the perfect temperature, have the song that you usually listen to in the morning play and then be able to walk downstairs have your coffee pre-made along with your breakfast and have the news pulled up on your television. Then, you can take your daily walk to your local donut shop and have a notification sent to your phone saying that your daily order is ready.

   All of the things described in the earlier section are done with data analytics and RFID tags. They way this would work is, your shower and music player will see that you are away when you turn off your alarm, then it will see when you open your door and will turn everything on. After you shower and turn off your music, a signal will be sent to your toaster, tv, and coffee maker telling it to turn on and perform their tasks. Once your arrive relatively close to the donut shop, its RFID scanner will notice your IP, in reality it is a certain number pertaining to your specific RFID chip, and will tell the workers to start preparing this order and charge it on the credit card number that is saved in their database (which was given on the first visit).

   With all of this being said, we can see that AI is only capable of doing what it is programmed to do, so no, AI will never surpass humans and conquer us, they will just appear to be smarter due to their logic algorithms.