Chapter 6: Innovation In The Future

For the side that is defending the use of artificial intelligence, it is crucial to illustrate the future where artificial intelligence is being used widely in society and how much we stand to benefit from that new civilization. There are five crucial benefits that should be analyzed:

1. Wealth of knowledge: 
   Artificial intelligence has a far greater capacity to store a large wealth of information and to a great degree of specificity. Although human beings can also store knowledge to great degree, their ability to retrieve it and their ability to remember mundane details like statistics is severely limited. This is because humans are constantly storing more and more information from around them even when it is useless or of no value to them. But with artificial intelligence, we can deliberately equip them with the specific knowledge that they need to function effectively. Additionally, the process of learning this knowledge is instantaneous due to modern technology. Information can be uploaded into their programming at a click of a button unlike human beings who will take up much time and effort to learn any particular knowledge.

2. Preventing emotional hindrance and human errors: 
   The ability for humans to function effectively is entirely contingent on their state of mind. Those who are suffering from an emotional event such as going through conflict in the familial or romantic relationships will find that they are unable to focus at work and are easily distracted. This is because their mind is occupied with the personal conflict that they are currently undergoing. For this reason, many companies have to let their employees take leave if they are currently undergoing some level of emotional turbulence such as a family member passing away. If they continue working whilst under that emotional state of mind, they are greatly prone to committing human errors. Unlike artificial intelligence which can be programmed to function at 100% optimum capacity, it is impossible for them to be distracted or distressed during the course of their work. When they do malfunction, they require some ritual maintenance before they can then continue to function at optimum rate again. It is unclear and uncertain on what period of time it takes for a human being to gain back their optimum efficiency.

3. Maximizing ability to function:  
   When it comes to humans, there are physical and humanitarian limits to their ability to function. If they are too physically exhausted, they would no longer be able to function effectively. For the sake of protecting human rights as well, the government mandates maximum working hours to ensure that no employees are being abused by corporations. Thus, there is a clear ceiling to the ability to function. With artificial intelligence, we are able to break through that ceiling and truly maximize the ability to function. They can be made to work overnight and function every day of the week. It has no real need to take constant and prolonged periods of rest and they can still continue to function optimally.

4. Create elite human labour for lesser costs: 
   Artificial intelligence is created to simulate the functions of the human mind on all levels. Although in present time we are still trying to develop technology that is comparable to human intelligence, we have been making huge strides such as when Google’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence successfully beat the world’s top Go player this month. Scientists have already forecasted that the future of artificial intelligence is bright and they predict the future to have robot scientists with the brain capacity to supercede human intelligence. In the future, all elite levels of human labour such as doctors, engineers and scientists can be sourced from artificial intelligence. This will be a greater optimization of the workforce as it takes too many years and an immense amount of money to educate one person to the highest level of expertise and expect them to succeed at the most difficult sectors of knowledge known to mankind. We also need to compensate our elite labour with large sums of money in exchange for their expertise and retirement ages restrict us from re-utilizing our brightest minds. With artificial intelligence, we save the time that it takes to groom our human labour, we save the money it takes to have them working and we save the losses that we have to suffer when they have to retire.

Artificial intelligence can self-regulate and further innovate: 

The beauty of artificial intelligence is that it functions much in the same way that humans do. The downfall of plain robots used in manufacturing and industrialization is that it has no ability to adapt, no ability to foresee problems and no ability to self-improve. This is no longer the case with artificial intelligence. Its mind simulates human thinking and thus, it will be able to self-regulate its own operations. It doesn’t only function like a menial labour, it functions like a high-level executive. It is able to identify potential problems and troubleshoot before the problem manifests. It is able to utilize its problem-solving skills to real-life situations. It is able to adapt to unforeseeable scenarios and most importantly, it can innovate much in the way that humans do. It can improve its working environment and optimally strive for better conditions.

Chapter 5: Speak Out

     "Freedom Writers", as the name suggests, writers who write for the purpose of freedom. This story tells a tale how racism is manufactured, and can be overcome through patience, compromise and love.
     4 terms that can be used to describe the situation in the classroom before the students were unified - "discrimination, segregation, prejudice and stereotypes."
     Minorites, the likes of African Americans, Asians, Hispanics etc were discriminated on a daily basis. For example, Ms. Gruwell's class. Her students were mostly from racial minority background, and was discriminated at school in a sense that they were deemed not intelligent and was placed in a lower class.
     Segregation also happened within the class. Students with the same racial background would group together and form sections within the classroom. Everyone had their own "gang" and was segregated amongst each other.
     Prejudism however was also another glaring effect of the toxic situation in America. Prejudism often caused conflicts between groups of different racial identities that it would trigger fights and worst, murder cases. It was toxic to the extent that it would be dangerous for any minority to walk outside alone, because that means they might get killed.
     Lastly, stereotypes. This means there is a pre-conceived notion that a certain individual is associated to determined based on an aspect like race. For example, most of the honours class students were white, rich male and females whilst lower classes were students from minority racial backgrounds. This means, Caucasions deem themselves more intellectual and deem others worthless for education.
     I admire the spirit Ms. Gruwell has for teaching. Her passion and her determination to help students who were previously toxic against her is something I look up to. If only teacher everywhere could have such a spirit, that they not only teach but inspire others to learn and build a community united, far away from discrimination and prejudism, the world would be a better place.