Should Robots (Chitti) Be Allowed To Think?: Objective

SHOULD ROBOTS ( CHITTI) BE ALLOWED TO THINK?
- A critical study of robots
OBJECTIVE : The objective of this paper is to analyze the purpose of robots and whether its a boon or a bane if thinking capabilities are induced in them taking reference from the blockbuster movie The Robot .
As is known A robot is a mechanical intelligent agent which can perform tasks on its own, or with guidance.. For many years, scientists have experimented with giving machines "artificial intelligence," or computer brains. In the 1940's, crude computer-type machines were given the task of breaking codes. They were the first robot-type machines. Once called "mechanical men," today robots are used for many things, and they can perform complicated work. Robots are machines that use a computer brain to "think." People must put information into the computer, and that is called "programming." Then, the computer tells the robot what to do. Messages are sent from the computer brain to motors in the robot's parts. For example, a message is sent to the robot's legs, telling them to move in a certain way, and the robot walks. Another message can be sent to the robot's arms and the robot moves its arms. Robots can even walk up and down stairs! Robots can be programmed to do many kinds of work. They are used in factories, because they can use tools, pick things up, carry heavy things, squeeze things together and work without resting, eating or going to the bathroom! Robots can fit into places people cannot. They can fold themselves in half, and turn their heads clear around. If they need to, they can even remove their heads! Delving into the folds of the movie Robot , it revolves around Dr Vasi (Rajnikanth) who is a scientist with a mission. He wants to create the first robot which would not only serve tea and coffee to its masters but would have the power to serve humanity in more meaningful ways. He creates Chitti, the humanoid who looks like him and is willing to do anything for him. Trouble begins when he goes a step further and teaches the machine to feel. Chitti falls in love with the professor's
fiance , Sana (Aishwarya Rai) and ends up becoming an almost undefeatable rival in love, courtesy the red chip that a rival scientist (Danny Denzongpa) infuses in him. Can the creator tame the rogue robot or will machine rule over man? Well the answer is in positive sense. To our knowledge, Researchers are teaching the robots how to search through rooms for biological hazards, and perhaps to find, intercept and destroy a moving enemy tank on the battlefield. The robots perform the tasks on their own. No one uses a joystick to guide them. "Our goal is to create intelligence by combining reflexive behaviors with cognitive functioning," explains Ronald Arkin, a Regents' professor of computer science and director of the lab. "This involves the issue of understanding intelligence itself. The task of building knowledge and awareness for machines is huge. We are figuring out how to make robot architecture both act and 'think,' using learned and acquired skills," adds Arkin, who specializes in development of high-level, behavior-based robotic software. He builds it using abstract behaviors that capture both sensing and acting, but can be reasoned as separate pieces of intelligence. Arkin's approach is influenced by psychology and neuroscience. The real question is should they be allowed to think? Intelligent thinking already exists to some extent in robots and computers. Sapient thinking, however, whereby the robot is consciously aware of its existence ( a tricky thing to define) and having feelings, is another story. If robots are aware of their own existence, they may logically conclude (as they did in the Terminator, that they should not be subject to human constraints and in fact are superior. And if robots, to the other end of the extreme, develop emotions, they will become less valuable to us, because emotions often lead to errors in judgment. Some would say that robots can already think because machines are able to compute information. It's just that due to certain boundaries they cannot think beyond a certain set of instructions. We have primitive forms of such technology but it is being refined. If one would look at the progress over the years in the creation of memory for electronic devices, then one would discover an exponential pattern. Now according to this pattern, machines should be able to have reached human brain capacity in less than 100 years from now. In Turings discussion about Computing Machinery and Intelligence, he
stated that if machines can behave indistinguishably from/like humans, they are intelligent. Sure they make things easier for us such as toll machines, washer/dryer, computers, etc but that doesnt necessarily mean that they are intelligent because arent we the ones who created them, put them together, and gave them the knowledge and the programming to do what its supposed to do? Turing counter argues with 2 responses; machines can sometimes surprise us and machines can learn. At first I didnt understand what Turing meant when he said that machines can sometimes surprise us but then I realized what he really meant by surprise us. Turing states that, Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. This is largely because I do not do sufficient calculation to decide what to expect them to do, or rather because, although I do a calculation, I do it in a hurried, slipshod fashion, taking risksNaturally I am often wrong and the result is a surprise for me by the time the experiment is done Hes basically saying that his error (in programming a machine) causes the machine to do something unexpected, which therefore surprises him. But I dont agree that a machine doing something completely out of the ordinary and unexpected is intelligent. I think its more of a mistake. For example lets take Deep Blue. There was a point in time when Deep Blue kept getting the questions wrong. Now was Deep Blue thinking out of the box and surprising us with intelligent answers? No. There was an error in his programming system and so he was shooting out random answers that had nothing to do with the original questions. This doesnt make them intelligent, so Turings response that machines sometimes surprises us falls short. However his second response that, machines are capable of learning got me second guessing my opinion. Lets take Leo as an example. Hes a man made machine. Someone programmed him and everything but as for the learning he did it on his own. Through trial and error, he learned what it meant to turn all the light on and off. Ive been noticing that I have an increasing large issue with the argument of robots not being able to produce anything without being programmed to do so. First off, I believe that programming is essentially the same thing as learning, its just a much faster process. However, lets take the subject of math, for example. If a robot was never programmed to know that 2+2=4, then it could never answer the problem 2+2=?. Much in the same way, if we never taught that 2+2=4 we would also not be able to figure out the solution to the problem. And if were going
to say that the robot isnt intelligent, only the programmer is, then I would argue we must also say that we are not intelligent, only the person who taught us is intelligent. CONCLUSION : So overall, I do not agree that machines are intelligent because we were the ones who built and programmed them but if they are able to learn on their own and I guess if they were to behave indistinguishably like humans to a point where I wouldnt be able to tell a difference, I could agree and say theyre intelligent. But I hope that doesnt happen anytime soon because its a scary thought if a machine were to outsmart humans.

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- A critical study of robots

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