My Virtual Identity
With the internet becoming more modern, it is common for
everyone to have online accounts. I have
accounts on Ingram, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.
I feel like my virtual identity is very true to who I am in real life as
well. I don’t have any fake accounts, I
don’t post stuff that I don’t believe in, and I am constantly updating
information as it becomes known. We talked
as a class about whether or not we actually exist in a virtual reality, or if
it is just our conscious. I believe that
a little bit of everyone’s conscious resides in every online account they
create. When we are making those
profiles as a snapshot into our lives, we are very tedious, accurate, and judgmental
of ourselves. We want to look perfect
in the eyes of others, therefore we are always worried about what they are
seeing, thinking, and reading. The days
of technology advancing, our conscious is only going to become more submerged
in online identities as the years go on.
Is Human Intelligence Natural?
I believe that Human Intelligence is natural, and that we
were placed on this earth in order to learn and develop our brains and
knowledge over time. It all starts in
pre-school where we learn the basics and it gets harder over time as we seek
higher education and challenging degrees.
We all have different abilities which shape the way in which we learn,
but in one way or another, every person on this earth is learning something or
demonstrating something they have learned, every single day. There are some instances where natural human
intelligence needs to be controlled, just to maintain appropriateness for
example. There is a quote I read online
that is perfect for this paragraph, because it explains how human intelligence
is natural, endless, and enhancing our future.
“Human Intelligence and ingenuity have consistently and repeatedly
unlocked technological and scientific advances that have raised the standard of
living each generation compared to its predecessor, while increasing the
ability of human society to support larger numbers of people and increasing the
carrying capacity of the planet.” This
quote ties us into the next section, about natural intelligence in terms of
technology, where it is argued that intelligence in terms of technology is not
natural, but instead programmed.
Is Technology Intelligence Natural?
I do not believe that computer intelligence is natural. Just because technology is able to respond to
us when we ask certain questions or select certain buttons, it was not able to
do that without prior help. I argue this
opinion because somewhere, behind the scenes, there is someone who had to
program the technology to be capable for responding intelligently. A computer by itself is not smart, and has no
prior knowledge of its own. Take Siri
for instance, if you do not ask her questions in a specific sequence, she is
not helpful at all. Siri would probably
be able to pass the Turing test, but it is not something thought of to have
natural intelligence. Think about it,
Siri is programmed in English, so what happens if you want to use a different language…will
it work?? On the supporting side, some
argue that because our suggestions on Facebook for ‘people you may know’ are
90% correct that we know that person, it does classify as natural
intelligence. Wrong. Facebook is able to recommend stuff to us,
based on a program that gives feedback based on the links you click on. We, the users, and giving the programmers
information that they are relaying back to us through the computer
software.
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