The Human Frontier Of Intelligence

When the earth began there was no life, it was a world of fire and oceans of lava, after thousands of year’s life began in the ocean and soon came onto land. The land creatures developed into dinosaurs which ruled the world for thousands of years until a meteor wiped them out and a great ice age came. Once the ice age ended monkeys came and from them humans. We have been around for two thousand years and now we have created artificial intelligence which is becoming more and more integrated into our ever increasingly complicated world to make it simpler but have humans also created the next cycle of evolution? The AI Revolution is on by Steven Levy is about Artificial intelligence (AI). Levy writes about how the AI came around and how it affects our daily life. Levy explains impeccably how its developers strayed away from imitating human intelligence, and how it is integrated into our society.

Isaac Asimov in “What is Intelligence Anyway?” addresses the question of how society determines intelligence. While in the army, Asimov scored impressively high on an aptitude test and, for a few hours, a huge fuss was made out of him. When Asimov then had to return to KP duty as a buck private he realized that while impressive, his test score did not hold much value. Throughout life, he found that registering high test scores was almost second nature to him. Getting high scores gave him confidence in the fact that he was highly intelligent and he expected everyone else to think that as well. Over time, Asimov came to conclude that scores are merely a reflection of one’s ability to answer questions designed by the test maker. He used an example

Clive Thompson’s “Smarter Than You Think” reflects upon the idea that technology is her to help us more than we think, rather than the popular belief that technology is ruining the way we think. Thompson believes that the pair between human and technology is making us smarter. Along with that, our minds are slowly adapting to the use of technology, advancing our thinking. Lastly, the relationship between technology and human, has brought humanity closer than ever with the ability to communicate with anyone, anywhere, at any time. Clive Thomason believes the stronger the bond between humans and technology, the smarter we can become; I also alongside with Thompson believe this is true, and if so us as humans need to embrace the use of

Technology is the epitome of human evolution. We are the only species we know of to have successfully developed tools, not just primitive ones, that’s been done before by other organisms. The tools I’m talking about are the ones which enhance our senses beyond their human abilities. Tools like GPS, farming equipment, calculators. These are tools that push the limits of human ability beyond what can be naturally achieved. Through these tools we can navigate the earth on a scale far beyond our ancestors, we can turn a field that would have previously taken months, and we can compute mathematics that further our understanding of our very existence. However, these tools might be taking more than they give; at least that’s what Nicholas Carr argues in his essay A Thing Like Me. In his

I believe that as technology improves the human brain improves to create more things. In “Smarter than You Think” the author Clive Thompson believes that technology and humans have equal intelligence. Humans are so reliant on technology to the fact that we are constantly improving on them. Since the development of technology information has been easier to obtain and hold inside our brains. While technology is getting more complex, the human brain is also getting more complex in order to continually create new and better gear.

The critically acclaimed novel written by Mary Shelley and published in 1818, delves into a multitude of universal themes throughout the text. One value that drives the plot forward, and leads to character development is the theme, human fulfillment of the pursuit of knowledge. It is Dr. Frankenstein 's unquenchable thirst for knowledge that leads to the future predicaments that ensue after the Creature is conceived and future moral dilemma. An example of Dr. Frankenstein 's disposition that lends itself to the validity of the stated theme, is as follows; “It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or, in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world” (Shelley 30). The doctor 's preoccupation with his studies, that results in controversy over the suitable nature of such an unobtainable desire, is clearly exemplified in the quote, “If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind” (45).

For as long as humanity has existed, humans have been the only being able to articulate their thoughts and to grow into a civilization. Thus far, humans have been nothing less than exceptional. However, the ability to replicate the qualities and abilities that have historically been exclusive to human beings suddenly makes those characteristics less unique. The qualities that once made humans special are now reproducible just like any other

As a species, we gained the ability to learn from each other and specialize further in whatever sector we were skilled in. Specialization allowed humanity to use their time to do things besides just surviving. People began to live longer, healthier lives, and the average man’s contribution to society increased. Then, in the last 25 years, we have seen the expansion of the information age. Never before has there been a source of literally all of human knowledge. There have been great libraries with thousands of books, but nothing that can even remotely compare to the level of ease of access that the internet provides. What does this tell us? This says that the rate of humanity’s technological advancement is rapidly increasing. A common model for how quickly computers are advancing is given by Moore’s Law. Moore’s law is a prediction made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, based on his observation of computer progress, that says that the number of transistors that can fit on a chip of a given area doubles roughly every 18 months (Investopedia). Transistor count correlates directly to performance and efficiency. Our progress on the power of computer and abilities of Artificial Intelligence in the past couple years is enticing, but if progress continues at the same rate, the famed, or to some infamous, singularity is right around the corner.

Philip E. Dow wrote the book, Virtuous Minds, as a mission to make intellectual character a priority in a world of laziness, cheating, and dishonesty. In the workplace, educational institution, and in everyday life these vices run rampant. It is important to Dow we see how intellectual character is a virtue in our lives, and our relationships with God and people. In part one of the book Dow goes through, “The Seven Intellectual Virtues”, chapter by chapter. The first, is intellectual courage. To be intellectually courageous is to earnestly seek to know truth. Earnestly seeking truth may be frightening, it requires you to open yourself to threatening ideas that could change the way you think. This bravery is what promotes growth in our daily

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Albert Einstein sums up what the technology we have created for ourselves has done to us in a single quote. “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Einstein). This one sentence holds many meanings. It means that technology has exceeded what is possible of the human race, that technology has affected us in a way that makes us less human, and that technology has allowed us to reach beyond barriers like language, distance, time, and space.

As time goes on, the intelligence of humankind continues to advance. In modern times, we see these advancements in products like smartphones and AI gadgets. In previous times, however, we can see the earliest form of human intelligence in the form of agriculture. Ultimately, the Ice Age opened up the possibility of agriculture and with that, provided a foundation for everything to come in the following centuries.

We have came up a lot with all of the new technology that we have created through out the years. There is a lot of technology that is very good and it is helping us out on a lot of things and why? because when you know how to use technology appropriately it can help us out so much and can even keep us safe from all the dangers like car accidents. Technology can be fun as well I'm not going to lie we can use technology with our family all the time for example, watching a family movie or playing video games. We can have fun with our technology but the thing is that we have a little to much fun with it and get carried away and start using it all of the time. Ther are people that spent time on their phone until 3:00am and it just takes away from our sleep. But other than that technology is helping us out in discoverying new thing in not just Earth but also other plants. We can discover a lot of things with all the new technology we

Seven hundred years of continuous prosperity; since the end of the crusades humanity has been on the rise overcoming every adversity that pops up every melancholy attitude that brutally may try to force its self into existence, and every disillusioned malefactor that tries to usurp the world. During the events of Atlas Shrugged that attitude of perseverance is being suppressed. Ragnar states his fight is for the thing that has rarely been loved, human ability. Human ability is a Brobdingnagian part of the story; there are also many examples of human ability: Galt’s motor, Rearden metal, The Phoenix-Durango company, and many more, but it was never given a palpable definition so in order to understand why Ragnar believes that human ability is rarely loved there needs to be a definition. Human ability is the competent consciousness of uncompromising ideas and the perseverance of integrity to see those ideals through, it’s to accept the fact that there is no reason for a man to live with guilt or suffering, but only for themselves and their happiness as long as it doesn’t ask another man to compromise their own. Human ability is the fertilizer that allows the true beauty of man to bloom; human ability personifies the righteous glory of man. Anything and everything great has required human ability. With this definition in mind, we can now deconstruct the reasons to why human ability is rarely loved.

Humans and technology, the two words are synonymous of one another in a way. One of them would have never existed if not imagined by the other. As humans, we have created technology to help us with our everyday lives. We are constantly in the pursuit of advancing technology to do more and more for us. In recent years scientists have been infatuated with the idea of bringing humans and technology closer than they ever have been before. Walking and talking humanoid robots might still be a few years away, but augmenting the human body to have the capability of a computer is well within reach. Tiny data chips, the size of a grain of rice, are being injected into willful human subjects in the name of both science and curiosity. The microscopic