Can robots replace the work of human beings? – Technology News – Technology

Can machines replace the tasks that man accomplishes today and become more "intelligent"? This is one of the big questions that technological development has raised in recent years.

Andrés Faiña, researcher in robotics at the University of Copenhagen, said at the International Congress on Artificial Intelligence Applications, organized by the National University, "we have yet to make progress for the robots to be safe. 39; discharge their duties reliably "

Although robots and artificial intelligence have ventured into areas such as finance, health and automation of industrial processes, the experts they agree that there is still much to be done to correctly model the reality

Risks of Ethical Order

This year, the Unesco published a document entitled "Intelligence artificial, promises and threats ". Apart from this book, a book is devoted to the ethical issues related to artificial intelligence and its application in robots.

"With AI, not only most dimensions of intelligence, with the exception perhaps of humor, are rational badyzes and reconstructions with computers but also machines, make pbad our cognitive faculties in most regions, which makes fear risks of an ethical nature " indicates the report.

These risks, according to Unesco, are of three kinds: " the lack of work that would be performed by machines instead of human beings; autonomy of the individual especially for his freedom and safety, and the surpbading of humanity which would be replaced by increasingly intelligent machines. "

However, the report raises a big question: will machines become smarter than humans? No, says the document and says it's a myth fueled by science fiction.

With regard to the work and manpower likely to replace the machines, Ricardo Ramírez, head of the Research Group on Robotic Platforms of the National University, explains that l & rsquo; Being human has many skills and abilities that robot technology can not yet imitate.

Variables that prevent the replacement of the man

Ramirez also mentioned that there are two variables that they limit the number of machines, one being the excessive power consumption required for certain devices to develop their activities.

For example, the academic mentioned that some prototypes ulan Some everyday tasks of human beings, such as walking or cleaning, usually have a useful life of your battery between 15 and 20 minutes.

The second has to do with the costs of incorporating high-end computers that allow robots to recognize spaces and make decisions during walking.

"For a human being, it's easy to know whether he's in a room or in a room. Robots need cameras and computers to process this information ", adds Ramírez.

To understand this point, the teacher establishes a relationship: a personal computer has four cores to process the information. However, artifacts with up to 50 cores are required to perform these space recognition operations cautiously, which would increase the production costs of robots.

Advantages or disadvantages for humanity? [[19659025] In this technical debate, one can add the controversy that created both the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and that of Tesla, Elon Musk .

Musk said that artificial intelligence may be "the greatest threat to humanity" . For his part, Zuckerberg said that "there are those who are pessimistic and who exaggerate all these apocalyptic scenarios.I just do not understand (…) It's very negative and I think it's utterly irresponsible. "

Ricardo Ramírez believes that robots and artificial intelligence can bring advantages and disadvantages to humanity. "There are benefits such as the support of domestic chores at home or the accompaniment of people (alone) .But it depends a lot on the awareness of people's values ​​and the use that's going on." they give to technology. We have already seen, for example, the use of drones to carry drugs. "

That's why the national professor calls to the # The use of technological tools in the service of people, do not end up serving the crime or harming the integrity of other human beings.

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