Blog Post #5 *Late*

I see myself as more of a pessimistic when it comes to the future and the future of the human race and robots. I don't feel as though they will live up to all the hype and the pictures painted by the media. To me, robots will walk and live among us one day but as far as them being better than us, that is where my doubt comes into play. Yes a robot can be smarter than a human but I don't think it will ever be "better" or exceed us to a certain degree. Robots can be smarter than us, I have no doubt about that but when it comes to being better than us there is just no way, we have and are capable of doing things that robots cannot. Robots are merely programmed to do as they are told which is different from humans clearly. We have the ability of free will and robots don't, also we can feel emotions and make emotional connections with things such as the arts and our families but robots cannot do this which is where I agree with Gelernter. They can only experience certain things in life so my view of them is very pessimistic. Gelernter touches on these points in his essay which is why I lean more towards what he has to say, there is more of connection of view points between me and his essay and I just do not have as much hope for future robots as Kurzweil does.