Artificial intelligence - Essay Example

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence After reading Hasker and a synopsis of Star Trek: Next Generation, a realization was made that many views and opinion are indeed present, especially in the world today. Since technology is evolving and improving everyday, the realization that artificial intelligence at its highest form may be achieved. In relation to Picard’s view of the mind/body problem, he exhibits behaviorism. Behaviorism which is more focused learning as only an acquisition of behavior based on environmental conditions.

Since Data can learn and acquire a certain behavior through the environment, Picard believes that he has the same right of any human being. If this is so, then any machine that is programmed to respond to a certain environmental condition will be considered to have the same rights as any person? In contrast to that Maddox view is more on Idealism, where reality is more dependent on the mind or an internal individual perception. Maddox believes that androids are just machines and should not be treated as humans, which connects with Hasker’s view that “material objects have no real existence”.

Personally, artificial intelligence can be of great use to humans. However, treating it as humans is not ethical. I believe that God made each individual with a body, mind and soul, only with this three elements that we can say we are human.