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• 1 2017-09-07T13:26:09-07:00 Do Technologies Take Us To Miniature Worlds And Make Us More Smart? 66 Some people think that technology keeps us locked up in our houses, make us become lazy, interacting only with machines, and become non-social person. Do you agree with that? Everything has both sides. Except negative effects, there are abundance of positive effects of technologies. Let's get start to explore them. image_header 2017-09-09T20:33:04-07:00

          With the continuous development of human society, science and technology are constantly improving and updating. Advanced technology has created a better life for us today. People continue to explore, discovery, and innovation, the pace of mankind is striding forward step forward. The invention of cars are undoubtedly greatly facilitated our travel and so on; it makes us become convenience. Air-flight, ferry, train, etc. growing faster and faster; the amazing achievements in agriculture; the machine is constantly humanized. There are many inventions are for our lives has laid a good foundation.Computer is a cross-century creation, we can not live without it. Computer can easily help us to complete many complex things, can accurately calculate we want the data to reach us out of a wide range of needs. All of these can relate to "Artificial Intelligence". "Artificial Intelligence" is going to throughout our life step by step at present even in the future. How technologies/ "Artificial Intelligence" effect our life? Is it can help us become smarter? Is it take us to miniature worlds? There are many questions still uncertain and debate between different groups of people at present.
  
           In book "Smarter Than You Think", Thompson mentions that “chess-playing computer has no intuition at all; human would bring intuition and insight to read opponents during playing chess time”. In other words, Thompson states that human has the perceived ability and can observe opponents in different situations; in contrast, computer can’t perceive to feel people’s psychological activities. Currently, human already use computer program to create robots for our real life; use robots in chess game play field as well as put robots in other fields, such as restaurant service, agriculture, nursing home and so on. It is good news for us because robots can replace human to do basic things and human can do other include more skills or creative jobs. Comparing "Artificial Intelligence" and human beings, currently, like Thompson states that "Artificial Intelligence" has no intuition like human. It is true at present because "Artificial Intelligence" is working through human insert different programs. They can work like human or look like human, but they can't being real human. They don't have real life like human. All of things inside of their "bodies" are machine and program. Even though someday "Artificial Intelligence" has intuition like human, they still can't instead of human because there are something "Artificial Intelligence" will not have. Roger Wu mentions that in article "The three things human will always do better than robots", he states that "Robots are good at knowing the rules of the game, and figuring out ways to bend them or to find the optimal moves. But humans can still figure out new games to play." This point out that "Artificial Intelligence" can choose the optimal way to do something, but it only basis on program or data what human insert to the machine; in other words, if human don't insert some new knowledge to machine, "Artificial Intelligence" can't figure out new things.
  
          In my experience, when I was a teenage, sometimes I played “battle landlords”, which is a card game. There are 54 cards. Also, there is a function which we can click on the setting button to switch to the "machine status" so that the computer will help us to continue to play the card game under program system what human insert to it. I usually used this function when there were other things need to do immediately. When I first time knew this function, I was so happy because I believed that computer have extra opportunity to help me won the game, but actually the thinking went to the wrong way. Like Thompson mentions, “computer has no intuition.” Yes. Currently, it is true. Computer is faster than human in calculation, search, identification and other aspects. They according the programs to operate things and choose optimal ways. When I first time use "machine status" function to played to card game, it helped me won, but there were many times fail to other real people who played with me. As a result, if we pay attention to observe how computer play the game, we can figure out that there is an inherent way what computer play this game. If our opponent deep thinking what is next step they need to go or pay more attention on the card game, the computer side will fail game. This is an example of computer only choose optimal way to do something under the program or data what human insert into it. If human don't put new  program or data into "Artificial Intelligence", computer will not create new ways to play card game or do other things, it only follows the old program system.
            
           In "Smarter Than You Think", Thompson mentions that combine computer and person together to play the chess game as well, it make extra opportunity to win the game. We can imagine that how can we fight two "big brains"? "Artificial Intelligence" can help us more "smart" in some ways. Computer can think quickly and it has excellent identification analysis system under the current program to choose optimal ways; In "Smarter Than You Think", it states that during chess game, human not only use brain to play the game, but also sometimes human utilize computer date and analyze ability to help them have more confidence and chance to win the game. "Artificial Intelligence" can do something faster and accurate than human, it makes up for the shortcomings of human brain and make us more "smart". Meanwhile, according to different situations, human brain can observe opponent's psychologies to make right decisions for increasing the chance of win game. In some ways, it makes up for shortcomings of "Artificial Intelligence brain". Human brain and computer brain gather together will make a "new world" in the future because they can help each other to overcome each other's disadvantage. This is "perfect match" for future society development. "Artificial Intelligence" technology can calculate complex content, such as analysis data and complex math. It can help us save time and makes the result more accurately. Human have different nervous systems create new things, communication with different people and make relationships as well as logical and rational thinking, and creative skills. With "Artificial Intelligence" and human brain development, how the future will look like? Is it become stronger, smarter,  or powerful? In my position, my answer is that the future will stronger, smarter, and powerful.
  
           Meanwhile, Thompson states that there are many people use social media tools to communicate with each other and exchange different opinions. That is also true. Everyday, every hour, every minuter, even every second, there are at least millions of people use social medias in the world. With technology and society's development, the world no longer big like previous. In contrast, the world smaller than past. In other words, technologies take us to miniature worlds. We can communicate with people who come from different countries; cross-country company or businessman can do meeting, trade, project, etc. through video/online. They don't have to fly to other countries for their business as well as we can learn a lot of ideas from website, social media, news report, etc. For instance, in "Smarter Than You Think", it mentions Wikipedia, which is a website for people can put their articles, opinions, make comments on it. We can get feedback from different people come from all over the world without go outside. It is really cool. Also, if we want to see somewhere, we can put key words or address into google search box and just click on the keyboard, the satellite pictures will appear in computer. 
  
           In my experience, as international students, we need to leave our country to go to another country for study. In other words, we have to leave our family, friends, and hometown. In previous, it was hard because we only can use cell phone to contact with our family, but nowadays, it is totally different. Every week my family and I through video to meet with each other to talk about the life in U.S.A and other things. I miss them and I can through video to meet with them without buy air-ticket to go back to china. Technologies make me never get homesick during studying abroad time. It makes my family even my friends who come from other countries become closer. When I was a child, if hear the other countries' name, it made me felt that country was far. If we want to communicate with that country's people, we need to go to their country. With different technologies' appearing, my mind change, our life change, the world change (more smaller). 
  
           "Artificial Intelligence", video, social media, etc. All of these technologies can help society develop better and better, smaller and smaller, smarter and smarter. Human with technologies will go to another "new world" which is "future world". We will live with "miniature world". Do you think so?
  
           
  
      
                                                                                                          Works Cited
  
  Clive Thompson. “Smarter Than You Think.” How technology is changing our minds for the better. Penguin Books. 2014. 1-113.
  
  Roger Wu. "The three things humans will always do better than robots". QUARTZ . 07 Oct 2015.