The Reality of Cyborgs and Hollywood

A week ago I had no idea that such entities as databases, which you could communicate with existed; their purpose to see if they could trick you into thinking they were human. To further elaborate on these devices, over time they gain the ability to add to their memory and develop new responses. This exploration has made me considered the reality of the fictional technology films of Hollywood. These films would include Bicentennial Man, iRobot, and the Terminator series.

Bicentennial Man is essential a movie about a household appliance, which evolves to be near human. The company that built the robots programmed them with a standard program and limited responses for communication. However, one robot distinguishes the ability to learn expanded responses and through a series of lessons, even learns the concept of humor. Ironically, in this movie the evolution of the robot is harmless, but the potential of danger lies close on the horizon.

iRobot and Terminator are such examples where the database learns new responses and develops over time. Eventually these databases become so advance that they throw their human controllers to the side, and proceed to take over the robotic operations on their own, which projects the threat to the end of humankind.

The destruction of humankind is what is most disturbing. It is not far off, or unrealistic to think that the current databases can evolve to actually throw humans to the waste side, take over modern technology, and send us into extinction. The question is how far do we go in our experiment with technology, or do we ignore the possible dangers, and meet our inevitable end.