Singularity and A Brave New World

Um... So I have not gotten to chapter six yet.... so here goes nothing!!

        In this article, I think that obviously a man had to create the first computer otherwise I would not be writing this blog right now. A man had to create the first computer otherwise I think that there would be very little technology today. Computers create almost everything technical. Without computers we would not be able to have such advanced math formulas that create basically everything.  Without the formulas that we have today, we would also not be as far ahead as we are in science. With what we have done with math and science is the reason that computers themselves have progressed. I do believe that one day computers will overpower humans but I also believe that that will be farther into the future. Each human can only contain so much knowledge, but then when put into a computer, all of that knowledge is put together in one place and can be used instantly. In the article, it states that "creating a work of art is one of those activities we reserve for humans and humans only," well that is partly true. Kurzweil shows this because yeah, the music may have been written by the computer, but Kurzweil built the computer himself. To be that is a work of art on its own. So basically since Kurzweil built the thing that wrote the music, Kurzweil wrote the music himself. This could be taken many ways: in the article they are talking about a literal piece of art, but if you don't look at it literally, you can see that this seventeen year old built a computer on his own. That is basically like one of us building a computer right now on our own. That is defiantly a work of art on its own.

        The article also states that "It would work incredibly quickly. It could draw on huge amounts of data effortlessly. It wouldn't even take breaks to play Farmville." This is also true because even the most efficient humans would not be nearly as quick as computers. We could not physically work nonstop.  Humans have short attention spans, we would constantly have to stop to eat, go to the bathroom, and sleep. These are all necessities for human survival that computers and machines would not need. Therefore, of course computers will be faster. I think that this could be both a good thing and a bad thing; it depends on how it will be used. If in the wrong hands, of course anything will have a negative effect, no matter what it is. That is also the same for good... it all depends on how it is being used and in what manner.