Summary Of Who Can Replace A Man By Brian Aldiss

In the short story “Better than Human: Why Robots Will-and Must-Take Our Jobs” by Kevin Kelly on Page 299 in They Say/ I Say with Readings book there are various of positive and negative aspects of the story in which areas develops two sides to the argumenting point.In the short story “Better than Human” by Kevin Kelly there is a big conflict point in whether humans will end or create better jobs.

Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron and Ray Bradbury’s Marionettes, inc. both show that although advances in technology can be used for good, it always ends up doing more harm than good. Marionettes, inc. is about a guy who keeps a clone of himself in his toolbox, only to have his clone retaliate by locking him in the toolbox at the end of the story. Harrison Bergeron talks about a future where everyone is equal in every possible which way. Although both stories showcase that technology ultimately does more harm than good; one talks about everyone being equal, and the other shows what happens when advanced technology is mistreated.

While Hollywood’s interpretations of futures where robots take over the human race are highly entertaining, the movie predictions may not be so far from present times. Take the example of the artificially intelligent robot Ultron, from Avengers: Age of Ultron, who was programmed with the task of achieving world peace. Without any specifications, he believed this goal would only be achieved by abolishing humankind. Artificial intelligence (AI), takes instructions very literally and the results will be disastrous in both a physical and mental sense when it starts thinking for itself. In essence, self-driving cars create moral dilemmas and safety concerns regarding artificially intelligent technology being programmed to coexist with humans.

Robots have been useful to humans since the past. They’re made to make human life easier. Since early times people have been dreaming of making robots and different people have made different kinds of robots. Robots has been useful in the past, they’re now useful in present-time, and they’re going to be useful in the future.

By the conclusion of his paper, a reader can realize that their view of what is human and what makes a machine have blurred or even switched places. Carr’s writing explains where humans are through data, how the effects are taking place from the individual to the global world, and finally the haunting illustration of where humanity is more cruel and unfeeling than the machines. In a world with less and less deeper reading, the threat we pose to the future becomes more

The rivalry between humans and machines has been present since the beginning og the the world. Trying to make the world easier for humans has been one of the life goals for society in order to crate a better world; however, those people don’t know that as society progresses the worse it is to introduce automated machines, Intelligent machines are a threat for society because it will increase unemployment and poverty.

From where we started from carving pictures into caves and making wheels and such things out of rocks, to the telephone, Internet and electricity, to robots, iPhones, and smart cars, humans have really advanced the world. Our technology today specifies in robot making and being able to drive without, well....actually driving. "Now and then we meet a controversy of deep and lasting dimensions. Some of our leading engineers and most brilliant theorists say the future of artificial intelligence is such a matter. Will machines learn to think like humans- and then to outthink us?" ( Encounters with the Archgenius pg. 1). The robots that engineers have been making are extremely smart. These could lead to a technology takeover! "Such machines might be made to look like humans, and even to react like humans" (Encounters with the Archgenius). The human race always afraid of the zombie apocalypse, but should we not be more concerned about something that can actually happen. If these robots get the chance to take over, they will take our jobs, leaving us without money which will cause an epidemic of other disasters. This will eventually end the human race which is a huge change in our world. The smart cars on the other hand can be a problem, yet a blessing. There are three main points that everyone should know about these new smart cars. One, they're here; two, they're superior drivers; and three, they're going to change everything.

Kelly’s essay is an accurate depiction of the future of technology and how it will impact our lives. Kelly introduces his essay with a some statistics. Two hundred years ago, 70 percent of American workers lived and worked on a farm. Today, however, machines and robots have taken over all but 1 percent of those jobs.

The article ‘Rise of the Machines’ is Not a Likely Future (2015), Michael Littman addresses the issue and worries that people have with regards to technology. The article attempts to persuade readers to believe that there is no need to fear technology as it is just not possible that they can overtake humanity. Zeynep Tufekci touches on the issue of machines taking over jobs of human, titled “The Machines are Coming (2015)”. She attempts to argue that there is no need to reject or blame technology for taking over jobs at the workplace. Littman’s argument is stronger than Tufekci as he provided logical reasoning due to a well balanced structure with consideration of opposable viewpoints with substantial evidence and effective usage of Pathos to appeal to the reader. Tufecki’s argument is weak due to the lack of evidence and her claim was only brought in at the end of her article which makes it seem very lop-sided.

It tells us that technology sometimes is dangerous and vital if we cannot gain power over it.

Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee created a book titled Race Against The Machine in which discusses the tremendous impact of technology on today’s society, today’s current employment issues, and the current economic status of the world we live in. Brynjolfsson and McAfee wanted to raise awareness and generate enough of a buzz to get people thinking about where we are currently and where our futures are headed—they did just that. What the authors are basically saying is that we are impacted far more than we realize by technology and if society does not take notice and take action, we will ultimately be beat out by technology and lose the “race”.

We think of computers as being incredibly intelligent now, but actually in terms of brain power an average computer today has the intelligence of a mouse. According to Moore’s Law, computing power doubles every 18 months. In other words, it increases at an extreme rate. The rapid pace of change brings fear into the eye of a technophobe and some of today’s most eminent scientists are now warning that the evolution of technology may spell the end of humankind. Even now, the greatest threat to job creation is the increasing reliance on robotics in industrial factories. Jobs that have traditionally provided a living for millions of people are quickly being turned over to a highly efficient and cost-effective robotic

We as people rely on technology too much by expecting the machine to do something by the click of a button and get angry when the machinery isn’t working. At the beginning technology wasn’t thought of too much but at this point technology is getting people addicted from kids to the elderly.

If you think robots are the kind of thing you hear about in science-fiction movies, think again. Right now, all over the world, robots are performing thousands of tasks. They are probing our solar system for signs of life, building cars at the General Motors plants, assembling Oreo cookies for Nabisco and defusing bombs for the SWAT team. As they grow tougher, more mobile, and more intelligent, today’s robots are doing more and more of the things that humans can’t or don’t want to do and in many cases taking away the need for human labor.

This essay proved through a series of evidence that Brian Aldiss communicates in “Who Can Replace a Man” that machines are ultimately dependent on human intelligence. The machines argue logically but then shut down, obey human orders, and do not start working without receiving orders from the radio operated by