Issue159

159."The human mind will always be superior to machines because machines are only tools of human minds."
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It is always said that the wisdom of human being are heritaged from generation to generation, and the active learning is the difference between human and animal. Since the industrial revolution in the late 18th century, the science and technology has been advancing rapidly, more and more mundane and boring job has been given to the machines. Is it possible that one day, you may wonder, machines can also think and learn actively, thus they may be superior to humans? This question needs a case-to-case analysis.
In my viewpoint, the reason why we make machines is to make us out of some tenuous and meaningless works, thus we can concentrate ourselves into other things which are more interesting or need initiative. In addition, the machines can use natural resourses which we can't use such as coal, petrol, to do much more job than human, in this way, the production capability can be growing strongly. Thus there will definitely be one day, people find those things defined as "interesting" today become boring or the rate of procreation of the production can't suffice to the human's needs. In this case, I may concede that the machines will be more superior, if this tendency move on and on, the capability of machines will be unlimited. Even this day become reality, I still won't take this as "superior".
Meanwhile, those who opppses the author may cite the game between Deep blue and Garry Kasparov. It was in 1997, that a chess computer invented by IBM called "Deep Blue" defeated world champion Garry Kasparov. Since that time, the scientific fictions and film predicting the situation of "robot domination" boomed. Public paniced, some of them even asked the government to set some law to forbidden, or at least postpone the technology, until mankind can find a way to prevent such things happen. It seems to me ridiculous that someone doesn't want to use machine to raise the quality of our lives. The key point is, what does the "superiotr" means? If this word just means the speed of calculation, the wearriless upon job, the capability to store data and materials, then yes, the machine has surpassed us since long time ago, and it is barely possible that we can be over them; in the other hand, if "superior" means the feeling, the imangination, the sensitivity of love to other people or animals or even the world, then I will never believe that the machines will exceed human, because they don't know anything about these things that we cherish most. As the machines can just be "superior" to human on those normal aspects, I suppose the humanmind will always be superior to machines which can be nothing but only tools of human minds.
Generally speaking, we human develop the machine in order to serve us, to make the production capablity advanced, to manticipate us from boringness and focus on something more worthy time and energy. Maybe one day the machines will make most of the achivement in the world, and all we need to do is just stay at home, put down some buttons. However, it is only us who can know the reason of producing, can give meaning to the works, thus can control when and how the machines stop or continue to serve us.