At the Cusp of Tech-novation

As Apes are to Humans, Humans are to Robots

There is a thin line of difference between disruption and revolution, or are sometimes fairly complementary to each other. The pursuit of technological advancement questions the legitimacy of defining us as homo-sapiens, because wisdom is one salient attribute that developed us to our present intellect.

A scientific wonder and a societal inspiration, Stephen Hawking rightly warned us of the upsurge of data driven humanoid robots, which has the potential to out stand our multi generational growth. We are amazed and wondered by the technological improvement in the field of robotics, #IoT and #AI, but aren’t aware that these tools, may in no time be just another human in the upcoming societies, and that would mark the armageddon of the human race. #Stephen Duneier, an investment strategist and a Guinness record holder, started his investment management company some years back with an extremely unique vision. He believed, in the capital markets we can earn profits only when somebody commits mistakes, either of timing or analysis. He was concerned with the wildfire like growth of software and algorithms in his domain of operations, because now his employees were not trading with humans but with robots at the other end. He sensed this happening in its primitive stage, and commenced training his employees to think and act in lines of operating systems and artificially engineered traders. Companies aren’t just developing these robots to enrich their balance sheets, but have started claiming citizenship for them. Operating systems and robots are evolving much faster than us, just to give a brighter picture of the same, it took centuries for many people to claim citizenship, yet before they were colonized, where Sophia (Humanoid Robot) , developed in 2015, got its citizenship as early as 2018 by the UN.

So how wise are we to sow the seeds for the apocalypse? Data is oxygen to these system. But who provides this data, it is us. A robot never knew how to communicate or interact with people, but repeated directions and commands helped it evolve, and you never know when it may adversely respond to your command, or perhaps from that day you will start learning how to respond to their directions.

Emotions and discretionary elements can never be coded to perfection. These two attributes will always differentiate humans, because no matter how much data you feed inside an operating system, it will always react the way it has learnt to but not according to the real time situation.