Today, humanity’s best minds are engaged in developing artificial intelligence. The most modern and advanced technical capacities are devoted to improving the qualities and capabilities of robots – machines designed to make human life easier. However, many are concerned about whether automation will eventually replace humans in all processes and whether it will displace the still dominant Homo Sapiens from the world pedestal: this paper will look at the problem from a perspective of reality, not science fiction.
Some time ago, scientists concluded that the creation of full-fledged artificial intelligence is impossible in the foreseeable future. They explained this by saying that so far, there is not enough computer power to process an array of data and operations similar to those occurring in the head of a human being. In addition, these processes’ connection, structure, and general functioning principles are not thoroughly known. When humanity completes, a study of the brain is also unknown. The point of giving the example of A.I. is that its creation is based on human thinking. The developers are trying to implement the brain, the human mind, in a digital environment.
Paying attention to mechanical machines, commonly called “robots”, can be seen that they are created in the image and likeness of humans. Even in manufacturing, where the primitive devices began to be used, they all performed human functions. They were called accordingly – a “robotic arm” for handling products, a “robot-loader” for loading weights, and the like. They can work almost without interruption but are exceptionally specialized and require constant supervision.
Based on the above, humans create a robot based on the principle of their own functioning. Technology, neither now nor in the near future, will be able to ensure that a robot will completely copy a human in everything physically, let alone in its thinking. Worries about a robot replacing humans in all spheres make no sense since this is science fiction, and the robot will not be able to become a separate thinking unit. Over time, more dangerous or inconvenient tasks will be transferred by humans to automation, but it will need constant supervision, maintenance, and other assistance. Human beings will probably have more time for spiritual and cultural development, which is, according to many people, the main goal of humanity’s existence. And man’s place in a future full of robots is in the center of this future, as it always has been.