No knowledge, just intuition!
The article was originally published in Portuguese on LINKtoLEADERS with the title \”Sem saber ler nem escrever!\”
In the 1980s, I \”discovered the world of computers with no knowledge and only intuition\”. I thought computers were a god-like electronic device that could do anything. When I asked my TIMEX Sinclair to draw Saturn — perhaps because of its rings, this planet is fascinating to me — I saw a strange black-and-white TV message:
0/0
I stared for a long time at the 0/0 on the white screen as if waiting to see the Saturn rings magically form.
Nothing happened! I waited for a few more minutes and still nothing. I didn’t intend to interrupt \”God of Machine\” during his creation. It was a Planet who asked, and it wasn’t a small matter!
But, nothing. Then I realized that we humans played a significant role in the actions of the machines.
As a child, I was a curious dreamer who was eager to learn. I lived in an era that wasn’t my own. In an old house, I lived in Mosteiro de Fraguas, Portugal, with my maternal grandmothers, my widowed mother (since I was 3 years old) and my brother. My brother was only 13 months younger than me and accompanied my adventures. He dreamed of the ‘hardware,’ while I dreamed of the’software,’ although we did not know what it was.
We had a gut feeling that we should do this, even though we did not know the details.
Our father’s few electronic and technical devices were the foundation of our life. It wasn’t much, but it was enough.
I devoured books while my brother dissected electronic gadgets. Then came the moment that my brother (still young) put together a kit we ordered from TIMEX, Portugal’s version ZX81 microcomputer. This is the TIMEX Sinclair 1000 mentioned above. It had only 2 KB RAM and was running on an 8-bit \”super\” microprocessor at 3.25 MHz.
I was fascinated by the inside of this machine, which you can call \”Digital Soul\”. It was this wonderful little machine which inspired me to learn Assembly Language (aka Machine Code). This brought me closer to the invisible world, where anything seemed possible.
John Horton Conway’s Game of Life or Life (1970), a cellular robot, is a source of inspiration for the ETER9 universe. The cellular automaton, which is a cellular replica of a person (or company) in the digital world, also follows the same set of rules.
Rule of birth: — A cell is born if it has three neighbors, in any direction.
Rule of Survival — A cell that has two or more neighbors in any one direction will continue to survive.
Rule of Death — If there is only one or no neighbors, the cell will die by isolation. If it has more than four neighbors, then it will die from overpopulation.
The technology itself is becoming a part of our lives. We are already merging with machines, whether we like it. This fusion happens silently and invisibly, as if it were a natural process. Many people insist that intelligent technology and people should be separated, as if they were two opposing sides. It’s almost as if there is a conflict between the two.
I don’t think so. I would rather see the two united in a common goal, which is to live together in harmony.
In the future, I think that there will not be a clear separation between human and machine. Every aspect of our life will be changed. Technology is advancing exponentially, and it feeds off itself. I would even go further and say that technology is becoming increasingly intelligent… artificially smart.
What a sensitive and sometimes controversial subject. It’s a sensitive subject and can be controversial.
I confess that I see Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a way to improve ourselves when it is allied with the human person, and has a wide range of applications.
Some studies suggest that Artificial Intelligence can double the economic growth rate by 2035. This will bring about many changes. For example, we can expect changes in the nature of work.
In the future, just as we cannot imagine a profession like paperboy in the near future, we will see some professions that we know today disappear to make room for others. It’s only natural. Artificial Intelligence is expected to boost labor productivity up to 40%. This will transform the way that we view the world.
While Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more prevalent in digital systems this concept has also led to the creation of \”Machine Learning\”, which is based upon the ability of computers learn from information, without having to be explicitly programmed.
Scientists and engineers have concluded that instead of teaching computers all they need to learn and how to perform specific tasks, they should be taught by the user.
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