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Will Man Made Creations Dominate?

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Will Man Made Creations Dominate? In the article “Toward an Intelligence Beyond Man’s” Robert Jastrow, a published writer and the first director of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, focuses on the idea that in order for mankind to continue to grow in intelligence our life form may vary from the structure we know today, resulting in artificial life, or in other terms, computers. Jastrow was involved in NASA and was able to win many awards in his field such as the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. Jastrow writes his article as a prediction of what the twenty-first century artificial intelligence will evolve into over the years. However, his prediction contains many faults and easily disagreeable subject matter. Jastrow says computers have improved from basic math calculations to mastering the art of imitations and will eventually rise as an emergent form of life. A major default that computers do lack are the emotions that humans possess, but still are capable of outsmarting when motivated and practiced to do so. Jastrow compares human brains to computer databases and says that unlike humans, computers can obtain and process mass amount of information at once. He also says that human brains have limited growing and improving left to do, while databases are going to improve tenfold every eight years. Computers and humans will eventually pair up in order to work in multiple categories of life; computers

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