Ai Dreams Forum
Artificial Intelligence => AI News => Topic started by: Freddy on September 16, 2006, 03:43:22 pm
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This is the story I was hoping to find about robotic limbs :
The Bionic Woman (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5348458.stm?ls)
Amazing stuff.
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I saw that. I like when technology assists the disabled. It's good to see it gives them their independance. I think before long, they will have these parts fine-tuned better. Surely they are making good progress.
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I heard they could connect the brain to a controller, but I thought it would take some time for the brain to get the hang of it, but maybe with some fuzzy logic thrown it it can work a bit faster.
That's sort of a moral conundrum or paradox. With advances to help people and keep people alive that would have died naturally without those advances may increase the cost of aid to others, and it's hard to say which will be more advantageous to the survival or benefit to humans. Like most of the hospital costs go to keeping the most aged alive with very little benefit to them or others. Like older people spending their life savings to stay alive for six months in pain and misery. My father in law was a millionaire and lost everything paying for expensive drugs to keep him alive from cancer for a few months, when the money could have been put to much better use keeping children from starving in some third world country. It's really a burden on society to try to keep just a small number of people alive, and things are getting a lot worse now with boomers aging. Who's to say who lives and dies, even the most indigent could become the next Einstein and change the world. What's the value of a human life? Really difficult social questions. Would logic used in creating AI be used to determine the cost/benefit of life in the future? How far can anyone let the technology go before an unacceptable use occurs, and who's going to monitor it? Sure it seems all fine and dandy now, but when the bionic arm tries to take over the world... :tongue (as if)