Turkle analyzes the possibility for machines to go beyond being a tool for human use. Turkle list various examples of people creating intimate relationships with technology whether it be students interacting with a complex AI or children playing with their tamagotchi's. Within our modern era people have begun to project their own emotions onto machines and have humanized them in doing so. This source ultimately discusses the emotional relationships created between people and their technology.
Johnson, Steven. “The Myth of the Ant Queen.”in The New Humanities Reader, pp. 192-208.
In his essay Johnson reviews different groups of individuals that function as a whole to form "collective intelligence". One of the examples listed described the way "demons" in AI programming function to created intelligence. This example not only go over the functions that an AI takes to think but also helps to lay the different capabilities we can see from an AI.
Sacks, Oliver. "The Mind's Eye." in The New Humanities Reader, pp. 328-350.
Sacks essay helps give insight as to how the human brain functions and adapts. He describes different accounts of people going blind ranging from various ages and causes yet they all manage to slowly adapt to their lives being blind. In almost every case of blindness the person began to develop as skill known as visual imagery which allows a person to see their own version of the world in their minds. This essay ultimately shows how capable human minds are at making change and how the brain preforms task even with limitations.
Moren, Janne. "How AI Is Affecting Kids’ Brains." N.p., 12 June 2014. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.
In this article Moren looks at the ways AI is affecting the minds of children. "Humanish" is a term being used to describe both technology and people in our modern era and usage has caused children to believe that AIs have human capabilities. AIs are now being seen as loving companions and often elicit powerful emotions from children. If an AI can learn and even feel with a child what is to say an AI cannot be human?
Szolovits, Peter "Artificial Intelligence and Medicine." Chapter 1 in Szolovits, P. (Ed.) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. 1982.
In this source Szolovitis looks at the implications of AI in the medical field. He first defines the relationship between and AI's intelligence and a human's intelligence and admits that while an AI does not have the same understanding as a person in terms of behavior an AI functions almost identically to how a human would. What is ultimately deduced is that it is not an AI's intelligence that hinders it use in the medical field but its understanding of the situation at hand.
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