Where do we go from here

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Human beings have been evolving for years, from primitive ape like behavior to an advance race that building artificial intelligence, We have made great strides as a human race from the dark ages where life was short and even a flu of cold could kill you to an era of great scientific discoveries that has shaped our world and world view, there was a time when we thought the world was flat and the sun revolved around the earth and those who had a different view were considered heretic and were sent to jail. If your opinion was different from your religious view then you were treated like an outcast. As time went by we have made discoveries that changed the way we do things and how we perceive the world

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Fast forward to the modern times when we moved to industrial revolution and the world began to change, transport became faster and the world became smaller. We started making long distance call and we could know whats happening in the other side of the world within day, This led to rise of machine world and most industries began to automate, we adapted by advancing our skills and went back and changed our world, with every change something was lost (old industries) and something new came along, But all this came with a price and the environment paid the biggest price, pollution was everywhere and with population boom resources became scarce. Conflict arose and lives were lost

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We entered the information age or the age of enlightenment and information was available at the touch of a button, the world became even smaller as anything could be found online. News that took hours or days now spread in second. This has led to people wanting to decipher all this info and get the relevant ones and the bots came into play. Artificial intelligence has become the buzz word, this are robotic programmes that can do work 1000% effective than humans with little effort. The human is paying the ultimate price with most specialized jobs been taken by bots, one person said that the demise of us human will come at the hands of A.I. when a super A.I. that can think and function without the help of us humans come along the we are doomed. Movies like terminator have depicted what it will be like , humans and robots at war with each other

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This bring two school of thoughts into play, one that support A.I. and it continuous development and another that is weary of a super intelligence. Elon Musk a tech billionaire and founder of spaceX and Tesla has reservation about a super A.I. and his feared are back by true fact when Facebook A.I. bot reprogrammed itself and started writing its own language that they had to shut it off, we are entering a time when robot are becoming conscience are starting to think, act and look like human. Recently a Robot called Sophia was presented to the world and it look and act like a human being and had cognitive and speech abilities like a human being.

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Our roads are been populated by autonomous cars and our homes are becoming smart, we are running our world using A.I. bots from finance, medicine, learning even out home assistance are been run by AI. Recently Amazon , Google and Apple launched home assistance devices that can connect to the internet and answer any question that you ask it based on search algorithm from users and information available online. One problem that seem real is the erosion of the moral fiber, we have sex bots in production for people who are shy to date. We have reached a place where we now having sex with robots that are customized to our liking, this is how low we have reached

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our world is changing and we need to adapt to the changes but we need to be more careful on how we do it, The advance in tech might lead to destruction of our moral fiber if not well check and destruction of our planet. their is work to be done but its us who will decide how the future will look like.

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