There
are several novels that depict robots and artificial intelligence as being as
smart as the next person. In the non-fiction text “The Singularity is Near:
When Humans Transcend Biology” by Ray Kurzweil and “Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep?” a graphic novel by Philip K. Dick they do make a good claim as
far as the intelligence of robots and artificial forms being very undetectable,
which is why I believe that androids will one day surpass humans in
intelligence. I do not agree that they will be able to obtain emotion as well
as surpass human beings in intelligence because it isn’t possible.
In
Philip. K. Dick’s graphic novel, there is an android named Rachel Eldon who is
very intelligent and is able to very easily fool people of her being an
android. In the novel she is suspected of being an android and then is put to
the test. There was a test they finally created that could finally expose all
androids of their anonymity. This test examined androids ability to answer
questions that struck different emotions; causing a meter to fluctuate determining
if there is any emotional response at all and how strong this response is. When
Rachel Eldon took the test she came extremely close to passing it and it was
only because one question that she was not able to give a reasonable and on
time answer that would ultimately expose her of being an artificial being. It
is safe to say that because Rachel Eldon only failed the test by one question
that androids have the potential to surpass human beings with intelligence. If
the matter of determining if they will or will not surpass humans is determined
by one question, there is not much of a gap between levels the artificial
beings can reach.
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