We are at the dawn of a new age of innovation. Technology makes our day-to-day tasks quicker, more efficient, and easier than we could ever do on our own. For instance, machines build our cars, make our food and grade our tests. Our innovations are becoming so advanced, it sometimes seems as if they are humanness out of life. In fact, many innovators hope to unveil a working Artificial Intelligence model, meaning machines may begin to think and create on their own. An online article for the magazine, Wired, tells of how Jeff Hawkins is developing new technology that may be able to do just that. The article reports, “Hawkins believes that his program…will also be able to solve massively complex problems by treating them just as an infant’s brain treats the world…” Since technology may soon no longer just be the product of human thought, I think it would be important to clarify who can create technology and who it can use it. According to my definition, technology may only impact people. Is it still technology if machines create it to impacts machines?
I think what makes technology is the fact that it is human progression. Machines do not live as we do, and therefore cannot create as we do. The moment technology changes its course from benefitting people to benefitting other machines is when it is no longer technology. To meet this standard, I will add to my definition. Technology is an human-made, understandable, adaptable, and present product of thought that intended to change quality of life for a specific group of people.
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I don't understand why the distinction between technology made by and for humans, versus technology made by or for machines. Technology is technology; period. I cannot see any reason for the distinction.
With regards to the Wired article, Jeff discusses his company's new technology, NuPIC, as a possible platform to help machines solve problems that people can already do, or ones that people find difficult to do. The goal is to train a machine to think like the neocortex.
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