In a descriptive syllabus for a graduate seminar in AI professor Donald gives insight into the form that AI research is taking and the bottom line is that internal brain functioning, switching, neurotransmissions, and patterns are being dissected to give the student a greater sense of the workings of the human mind so these same students may go forwards and attempt to recreate, decidedly small scale (likely single or minimally multiple) functions of human thought to create action. It is therefore not difficult to imagine that these same students will be a part of the future with regard to the development of life-like interactive toys or tools. (Donald NP) the point being made is that research developed to recreate a person in an artificial form is being done on real human science and characteristics. Science is attempting to map and dissect the whole of human physical and mental potential to both understand it better and create imitations of it for science and potentially to better the human condition. Many of them com at it as if they are designing better toasters, even though it is far greater than that. They are designing elaborate toasters that can learn from humans and can learn to anticipate what type of toast and how dark the individual would like it to be, based not on cues but on an artificial sense of empathy. This is of course a simplistic analogy and in reality mind reading toasters is a still yet more simplified concept than an AI system, as AI being developed today has the hope of science behind it that would have it be conscious, think, learn, emote and even hold viable and lifelike conversations with its human companion.
There may also be a time when, like the movies, research into such systems does not require the support of an institution and can be created and manipulated within "rogue" environments or at the very least environments with little or no legal supervision or control. This is not to say that a conspiracy of AI development currently exists as most if not all of the current research regarding AI is open and debated, with the exception of the fact that within science and even the law there are many protections for entities that wish to keep scientific knowledge a secret for the protection of their own rights, the security of nations and most often for the protection of any future right to profit from their discoveries.
A leading expert of corporate social responsibility reasons that companies are not populated by enough people with universal ideals of social responsibility. This is a statement that many experts agree on, that culpability also lies in the individual, working for any corporation, to speak out when problems are noted and force action. (Lindorff 880) Sims proposes that there needs to be a "universal ethical principle orientation" that he defines thusly:
Right is defined in terms of self-chosen universal principles of good and bad. The individual follows self-selected ethical principles. If there is a conflict between a law and a self-selected ethical principle, the individual reasons and uses conscience and moral rules to guide actions. A person at this stage may be more concerned with social ethical issues and not only rely on the business organization for ethical direction. www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106810913" (Sims 103)
The problem then arises when the corporate and scientific climate in which these individuals work does not stand on the ideas of openness and communication about concerns and problems. The system does not reward scientists for speaking out about known problems and whistleblowers are rarely tolerated within the system, as they represent a threat to secure information, that builds profit as well as company public image. There are many cases of this sense of secrecy in the science world, that is clearly contrary to open communication and sharing about science and technology, one of sciences many founding principles.
There is, to begin with, the kind of secrecy that everyone deplores but that is fostered by institutional cultures of self-interest, both public and private -- when scientific facts that the public has a right to know are intentionally hidden and knowingly withheld to preserve the economic or political standing of powerful organizations. Examples include drug companies that fail to disclose reports of adverse reactions to their products, (57) car manufacturers that hide technical defects in their vehicles, (58) employers and polluters who conceal data about illness caused by their activities, (59) and governmental agencies that paper over malfunctions in technologies that are deemed key to...
Wireless Broadband Technology Overview of Wireless technology Presently it is quite evident to come across functioning of a sort of wireless technology in the form of mobile phone, a Palm pilot, a smart phone etc. With the inception of fast connectivity in the sphere of commerce it is customary and useful to operate from central locations communicating with the remote branches, conducting conferences in remote places, discussing with every body at every
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