The Little Robot

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them ~ Donald A. Norman

There is an idea that robots will either be our saviors or our dictators. Both ideas are frankly, insulting and ludicrous. The very idea that a robot could be superior to us in every way is utter rot.

It's pretty hard being a human, we have all these wet chunks of meat floating in us, too many hormones or the lack of them, and emotions. Bills to pay, people to kiss, and fights to start. We're not always brilliant but when we are, we are.

With that in mind, how could a robot beat us? When you really throw out all we know of science fiction and put to mind reality, you really realize that robots are severely, outmatched.

If a robot brain were to be made equivalent to a human's brain, it was estimated that a computer to match would have to be the size of New Zealand, if not larger. In our bodies, our nose can remember 50,000 scents, our brains can hold from 1 terabyte to 2.5 petabytes and on top of that, we can recreate life.

On the other hand, a computer as a machine can do many things. It can move faster than us, be stronger than us, or do the washing better, seemly out think us and create things that humans couldn't do.

However, when we delve into what makes humanity, as human beings we have dreams, we love, we hope, we have ideas. It just seems impossible to create something like a human let alone a machine being able to come up with ideas.

Just because a machine has information does not mean it will be able to make up information. With a machine, it's like a loop, it can add large mass of data to that loop, change it up, but at the end of the day, it's the same material. With a human being, it can add things, new things, that a machine could only dream, if they were able to dream.

Despite all that, when people see a machine can beat a human chess master in chess, people get all impressed. When people see that feat done, they truly believe that humans are looking at their masters.

 Nevertheless, when you really look at things, it doesn't really seem all that impressive. More so when you see everything as a whole. The reason a machine can beat a human, is because it is born seeing patterns. In fact, patterns really aren't patterns, because it just notices everything and doesn't get tunnel vision when playing. Furthermore, for anyone who has played chess, it's all about trickery, but if you compute all the tricks for the computer, none of them are tricks.

Additionally, a computer does not have emotion, it does not care if it wins or lose the game of chess. The human on the other hand can get caught up in a moment, and have feelings about the outcome of a game. While the human is thinking about dinner or maybe about a favorite Tv show.

Machines are amazing and compared to most things, they might not seem to have an equal. Machines will certainly go far. However, were they go can only be as good as their creators. Furthermore, a machine, no matter how amazing, can never be compared to a human being.With machines they are the opposite of humans. Machines are dead even before they came to be, and what is dead can only be dead. While humans on the other hand, are alive, and were born and made alive. Humans are ever changing and ever flowing, while robots are stagnant, and what they were from birth, is what they will be in death.