Robotics:
As I was reading through robotics related topics, I realized
that the world of intelligent building is more advanced than I expected it to be
coming into this course. The one interesting article that I came across was
revolutionary in home robotics. For instance, as of today, vacuums are machines
controlled by humans for cleaning purposes. But the projection into the future
reveals that vacuums will be so advanced that in case of low battery, the robot
will return to its usual charging place. It would be great to have chargeable
vacuums that prevent the dragging of wires from room to room.
Artificial
Intelligence:
With the constant improvement of technology, we as humans have
to realize that one day, many of our jobs will be ran by robots. In the article
“What Jobs Will the Robots take?”, the statics open eyes on how many jobs will
be computerized. Jobs such as telemarketing, title examiners, shoe repairers,
library technicians etc. have a 100% chance of being taken over by robots. Is
this really what we want?
3D Printing:
3D printing has advanced a lot from the past to now. What has
drawn me into the chosen article is the statement “One day a 3D printer,
using a mix of materials, will be able to create body armor for U.S. soldiers
that is more lightweight and stronger than anything could be made with
traditional manufacturing and materials today”. How many lives could be
saved this way? Many I would imagine. 3D printing is the future of everything,
whether it is in journalism, photography, teaching etc. But, at the moment, I
do not know how to relate this topic to intelligent building as an architectural
engineer.
Future:
Yes technology is great, makes a lot of things easier and one
day, whether we like it or not, more than half the things around us will be
computerized, using robots etc. I personally see a lot of disadvantages to this
upcoming futuristic measures. For instance, my group-mate Anthony Yau affirmed
that the purpose of all this is to increase human productivity by making
certain tasks easier. Yes, in some way but I would like to respectfully disagree.
What all this change will cause in the long run is laziness among humans. With
everything being so easy, there will be no motivation to try nor room for
improvements. Robots may one day replace construction workers, leading to less
work related incidents but if you take a step back and think, that only takes
away work from humans leading to more unemployment.
References:
“The Year in Robots, 10 Home Robots to Lighten Your Domestic Chores”
by Bob Tedeschi.
It is really interesting that you gave a question about AI. As I know, everything has its two sides. Although Pipeline robot accelerate the production speed and decrease the defective percentage, a majority of human workers have been jobless. Company would rather select these machine with less payment and no complaining. I think it must be balanced by intelligent human. There will be more appropriate job opportunity that will be created or explored in the future. Human always have outstanding adaptation capacity.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct Liang but to me, it's as if the way we are headed, there will be more negative impacts to all these changes than positive.
DeleteI think right now, we can see that there are many problems that can occur for human workers from the development of automated technology, but something that we don't see is what technology can benefit. I was watching a video about the future of robotization applied modern jobs and how it can actually save lives. One example is an automated doctor that will allow for a more accurate diagnosis of diseases and to prescribe the proper medication that doesn't interfere with other types of medication that may potentially pose as deadly. Yes I agree that it will make human lives more complicated, but it also makes our lives easier. I agree with Liang about the two sided argument and that this is another thing that we must adapt to. I don't think that the advancement of technology will stop or slow. Advancement of robotics is inevitable. It is something that we have learned to rely on. I don't think "Laziness" will increase within the human race, but will actually decrease as technology pose as a challenge for humans to become better than robots and will push us as a race to accomplish greater things and discovering more complex topics. Another thing I think will happen will be the harmonic advancement of humanity and technology together into something greater that we don't yet understand or see.
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