Originally Posted by
Alric
Do not fear change. Things like translating glasses would be extremely helpful and would promote the spreading of knowledge all around the world. Who has time to spends 3-5 years learning a new language, for the 5000+ languages of the world? Would take you 25,000 years to learn those languages! Impossible at the moment, though with technology we might greatly enhance our life span, and it is possible we could live that long in the future.
When you think about it, a human is just a biological computer. There is nothing magical or supernatural about our brains or how we work. If someone were to replicate the thinking processes of a human, on a computer, that could would have all the traits of a human. One could even argue the computer was alive and a person, and I for one have no issue with that at all.
What is the difference between a person being born as a baby, or created as a robot, if that person then grew, learn and became just like you or me? Does their origin as a robot make them any less alive, or conscious? No, not really. I am entirely in favor of giving robots that develop human like qualities, full rights as citizens. I am also in favor of giving any future animals who are augmented, either biologically or through brain implants, full rights as humans as well, if they can be increased to our intelligence level.
AI doesn't currently have awareness or consciousness but it is pretty much a given that they will in time. Probably far soon than most people suspect too. However, that isn't a bad thing. It is the formation of a new life form, an artificial man made life form. That is bad ass. I am looking forward to it. I want to make friends with robots, who become alive. Don't hate on robots. Also, we will probably end up putting our brains in robot bodies any way, so we will be robots. It is kind of silly to hate on robots, if we become robots our self.