Future
In order to finish this task, I have read lots of blog posts
regarding futuristic vision based on the technology development human have so
far. I have read many of them describing the feasibility that the remote control
and database restoring personal interfaces in the near future. In reflect to
the intelligent building topic, this will be a very important technique. Imagine
people could control every household appliances away from home, warm-up time
for the AC to run the house at their designated temperature will no longer be a
pain. Likewise for a bathtub filled with hot water and a coffeemaker with
brewed coffee ready. Everything can be remotely accessed as long as they are
connected to power. In the post “Samsung at CES 2015: How enterprise fits it in
with Internet-of-Things”, Samsung CEO was targeting to equip the Samsung
products with ability to connected home, just like what people envisioned as
above. This “Internet-of-Things” trend will be a continuous interest due to its
convenience benefiting humans.
Computer
Computer is definitely the most useful tool and invention
that human ever created in my opinions. It started the era that human can hand
over heavy load of computation handling to high-efficient machines and shorten
the speed of the evolution that should have followed. The first idea of
computer came up by Alan Turing and he strived to create a machine that will
encrypt all codes from Nazis that people should have killed 24 hours to
translate. Ultimately, we are hoping that some machines would be able to take
over various heavy-duty work along with the development of technology and we
can enjoy the life more. The end result will be an artificial intelligence to
adapt itself to different tasks. This requires a very alike algorithm as human
brain or else it could not think and update its knowledge. However, Doctor Andrew
Ng are now making this happen. He discovered that there was one single
algorithm dominating human’s learning process as opposed to the belief that “human
intelligence was derived from thousands of simple agents working in concert”. This
would be a milestone since there could finally be one single system that
explains human brain activities and all scientists should do is to sort it out.
Software
With the blooming cloud techniques from various producers,
the shared devices and software are become realistic. Often time, we are confused
by re-setting up the interface when user switch to other device. However, with
the development in cloud technique, all of data that user has in his/her
personal device can be able to obtained when passively logging in other device
with biological authentication. In the post “Shared devices as the future –
Moveable interface”, the author envisioned the world with all shareable devices
that you can have “a system where you don’t buy physical
devices but instead subscribe to a service that provides access to interfaces
tailored to each environment, everywhere you go”. This provides a picture that people no longer
need to commit to one device for a long period (given the fact that nowadays
personal device are expensive too, i.e. Iphone), and people have access to
personal data without restriction to shortage of power and deadweight of
laptops. In a sentence to conclude, I love the convenience that it can bring
but we will then start to worry about personal privacy might leak regarding the
fact that sharing data are now accessible everywhere.
Artificial Intelligence
AI is a trend that will bring human so much of benefits. It
will calculate the most complex mathematic problem and solve for any logical problem
in seconds that will take humans up to years. It will serve as a most intelligent
servant for human that can literally replace humans’ role in making hard decision.
Can it rationally replace human’s role though? According to Stephen Hawking in
the post “Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind”, his
worry about AI would take over human’s work gradually due to human’s slow
biological evolution. However, my statement regarding this issue is not as
gloomy as Stephen Hawking. Given the inherent superior ability on computing, AI
lacks the emotion that comes along with humanity. This is the shortage yet
overcomes a lot of problems and creates miracles. Aside from the irreplaceable role
that human has, we should continue on educating ourselves and next generation
so ultimately we have the knowledge of creating machines and also know how to
control them.
References
Samsung
at CES 2015: How enterprise fits it in with Internet-of-Things
The Man behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for
the New AI
Shared devices as the future – Moveable interface
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