In the first episode of Age of Artificial Intelligence, Robert Downey Jr., also known as Iron Man, the host
of the YouTube original series, narrated how the series started from where it was all filmed and how the
flow of this series will be. He then introduced the ever-interesting Baby X created by the company Soul
Machines who dreams of creating an artificial intelligence who can help you in your day-to-day necessities
and an A.I. who can think by itself. The Baby X was an A.I. made after the face of the C.E.O., Mark Sagar’s,
daughter. They made a whole replica of the real baby’s facial expression, emotions, and other factors. It
can also recognize somethings that are shown in its eye (the camera of the computer). When you amuse
Baby X, it can also laugh and get scared when you try to show it something that is scary. Due to the
companies Baby X project, will.i.am, a singer-songwriter, rapper, actor and producer that is based on the
United States got interested and contacted the company to make him his own avatar that can help him
with his day-to-day necessities.
In Atlanta, Georgia, there lies a tech center that focuses in Music technology led by Gil Weinberg,
professor and the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. In their lab, they
create robots to further enhance or create music that normal humans can’t do due to the limited actions
that human can do. They made Shimon, a marimba-playing robot, it listens to what humans play and
improvise. It has the ability to find patterns that can create morphing of music that human could never
create. One day, a guy approached Gil and ask if he can create a prosthetic that can help him play the
drums again, Gil then created an arm that has to drum sticks, one with the power of Shimon, and the
second one that is manual and sensors the muscle movements made the by the owner. They made contact
with a person just like the person who contacted Gil but, in this case, his whole limb was taken away in
the last 20 years ago. Gil created a prosthetic, unlike the traditional prosthetics that can be bought, they
used the mechanism of ultrasound machines to detect the movement of the muscles, to move each of
the prosthetics individual fingers and it worked. For the second guy who already almost forgot how it feels
to have fingers, by muscle memory, he was able to move it.
Purpose of this paper
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To properly acknowledge Artificial Intelligence as something that is not a threat
To acknowledge that Artificial Intelligence will not replace humans instead enhance our
civilization to prosper and may attain the dreams that are yet to be possible.
Episode one consisted 5 parts:
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Introduction- This was delivered by Robert Downey Jr.
Meet Baby X- The program made by the Soul Machines
I Am My Data- Narrated by will.i.am
Modern Cyborgs- As we are right now, we are basically cyborgs just by using applications that
make our lives easier day by day.
5. The Avatar- This is will.i.am’s avatar creation.
In my stand, I do believe that one day, Artificial intelligence will flood our lives and work paths and change
how this modern world work. The creation of such program is revolutionary and eye opening to some
people. People might be scared at first but eventually find its beauty in the journey of exploring and
enhancing the program made by our hands to easy the lives of one another. Soul Machine’s work on
making a virtual self is quite intriguing but very interesting, they clearly created a soul inside the machine.
They even made a brain purely from programming but instead of neurons they created nodes that can
understand, store, and learn from the surroundings. This might be one of the many steps that can push
us further in the study of the human core, by having this as a start, we may be able to create or replicate
brains in the future. The entirety of their work is mind boggling, anyone who will read their works would
wonder, my future is now, we have all this kind of stuff that 40 years ago were just dreams, what about
40 years from now in the preceding years? What would this world look? I just wonder, I hope a world
where there is structure and upright leaders run the world.