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It was a
gathering that would hypnotize you about the depth of human ingenuity and
technology advancement in artificial intelligence.
It all
started as instrumentation and later the intelligent machines emerged. Today,
they have advanced to the humanoids. Call them machine human beings or
artificial citizens, and the import of their being would not be overstated.
Or what else
would you call a machine that seems to know more than you, just the substitute
human being that can call you to order and direct that you are taking the wrong
way, or better still ask questions and responds or act accordingly.
It would be
apt to call them artificial citizens of the world and creators have got
millions of them all over the place. In china, such citizens are increasing in
number. And to show case the extent the makers have gone in introducing these
beings into the ecosystem, they held the symposium in the outskirts of Beijing
between October 21 and 24.
The ensemble
was a deluge of inventions and creativity. The exhibitors came from even other
countries and held the visitors and enthusiasts spellbound by the wonders they
made.
In May, this
year in Beijing, the T3 – China, Japan and South Korea – met in their triennial
conference and the focus was advancing manufacturing and industrialization to
high end index, especially the production of intelligent machines to effectuate
production.
Maybe, with
these ‘citizens’ spawning, the countries that worry about an ageing population
that would run the society might spare the sweat and headache and just
proliferate these machines to fill the demographic gaps.
Actually,
automation has been long with man from the automobile machines to the auto
factory production lines. But it was later in the 1960s that artificial
intelligence started taking the form of robotics, exploiting the properties of the electromagnetic wave
that enabled and fastened communication using remote sensors depicted in
handheld phones and the internet.
This aspect
of technology has today permeated all sectors of the human society from defense
to entertainment, industrial use to home appliances, from factory production
lines to service points at the airports
and banks and even the hospital wards judging from the exhibition in Beijing,
the robots rave just seems to be picking up now. The inventions keep coming in
diverse ways, functions and uses.
At the
entertainment aspect, many visitors to the fair were really captivated to see a
stage peopled by robots that acted as comperes, chaperons, waiters and masters
of ceremony. They direct and address the audience and even entertain in songs
and dances. A particular podium had a display of a motley clan dancing robots,
doing Michael Jackson dance steps and his moonwalk. Some sang and their jumped
around in their stiff mechanical gait.
It was quite
amazing watching a kid of less than two years play and dance about with robot
that was just his height. The child was so excited to be in the company of the
little machine that looked like his age that for some many minutes, he didn’t worry
to look around for his mother.
At another
stop, a contraption stood at the entrance to the pitch. The exhibitor explained
that the machine was like an alternative member of a family. As the family goes
out, the machine is left at home to watch and run errands. It monitors that
nothing goes wrong like a stove left burning, a pot over fire or forgotten
running tap, flooding the home.
In such
situations or in case of fire outbreak, it helps in switching off a problematic
appliance or turn off the stove and at the same time alerts the owner of the
home through phone contact about what is going wrong. If it is what could be
handled from a distance, through the activation of the machine, an intervention
could be made.
Some other
intelligent machines assist you at the banking hall, at the airport check – in
terminal, at the hospital, at the hotel lobby and reception and also direct you
when you don’t know what next step to take.
The exhibition
also had the loose components that are pieced together to work the humanoids
and artificial labour hands. They ranged from the tiny and large ball bearings,
the little jigsaw interlocking wheels, the driving belts and chains, tiny
rollers and the bolt joints. They are assembled to form the machines, even
animals like robot birds, fishes and butterflies that rattle you.
Although the
adaptation of intelligent machines now looking like human beings has been in
the rapid rise, its most use is still in production lines of factories,
especially in precision production lines of factories, especially in precision
production like the assembling of machines and engine gadgets and printed
circuits boards that need very delicate and impeccable precision.
As it
handles these duties prone to errors, it runs smoothly without distractions,
following the ridged dictation of the installed software that prompts it, only
with the disadvantage of the lack of initiative and flexibility or nuanced
alterations of adjustments. The intelligent machine is non – normative and
never shifts from its programmed track, and to make it perform another function
from ridged rules entails the re – encoding, debriefing or writing another
protocol.
But notwithstanding
the ridged shortfalls, those duties that don’t need to change so fast are their
best bet in assembling products, running iterations and sticking to rules with
unwavering tenacity and accuracy.
This uses
have been deployed in the medical field where robots or intelligent surgical
beds, photomachines, sensors, laser beams and others have proven effective. Such
robots also feature prominently at the exhibitions just like the unmanned
aerial vehicles [UAV], simply called drones. Camera – bearing drones have been
of much use in security surveillance and in the media.
With unmanned
automobiles already featuring in avionics, land automobiles, etc., who knows if
the artificial citizens would in the future start siring kids and divesting
human beings of those exclusive features that make them unique. Probably, man
has started populating the earth with his own very alternatives.
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