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she could trust and with whom she could speak about her feelings and problems.
Perhaps, I guess in the future, these types of machine would find their utilization in
the old-care homes and single people as this machine would give them some
meaning to live and perhaps some joy. Anyhow, the only thing that mirror girl
lacked in its design was ability to learn and self-consciousness. The problem this
flaw caused was that occasionally she hurt the feelings of the young girl quite
unintentionally. This machine was not an intelligent one. Although, it had immense
memory and had the capacity to increase its memory further but sometimes, it
could not drew conclusions and logical implications from simple statements.
Therefore, later, when the husband of this lady created a new machine which he
named Strong Eye, it was new development in the world of AI. This new
machine was on self-conscious artificial intelligence. The maker of this new
intelligent machine believed that creating a program as complex as human mind
would not be possible even in a million years but rudimentary human instincts such
as dislikes, curiosity, and the fear of dying are fairly simple and could be simulated
by fuzzy logic. In essence, it is similar to how a child develops its personality over
the period of time. In the similar fashion, the AI machine would be continuously
rewriting and revising its algorithm based on the new experiences. As a result,
when the young lady meets Strong Eye or the new mirror girl, she
immediately gets apologies from the machine for the past behavioral mistakes
which the machine had committed. The author has suggested that artificial
intelligent machine has to have self-consciousness in order to be not rude and illmannered. The last story which I like to mention here is The Day Shion Came. I
think this is indeed the best episode of this book which beautifully draws a picture
of the future robots which would serve humans in the hospitals and treatment
centers. I would like to particularly quote the best line in this episode and that is
What is hateful to you, do not do that to your fellow I think it is gigantic
message for all of us if we want to live peacefully and harmoniously in this world.
The episode is about a female caregiver robot which is programmed to be perfectly
professional in her task by its designer. She has some flaws, for instance, she takes
the words of people as it is and she has at times trouble comprehending people who
have speaking disabilities. But on the whole, this machine named Shion is almost
perfectly made. The author in this episode has tried to emphasize that making truly
intelligent machines should be our quest instead of making copies of human beings
as that is not possible and even not much desirable. Because, human beings are not
always driven by logic and morality and which leads them to do crimes in the
society. Rather, our mission has to build intelligent machines which may not
understand love or friendship but they should fully realize that hurting or damaging
another person is undesirable. This episode quite nicely, narrates how a robot won
the heart of a patient named Isezaki. The patient developed so much attachment
and feelings for the robot that he was ready to purchase it from the manufacturing
company at the cost of millions of yen. The central theme for intelligent machine
portrayed by this episode was that robots have to be good listeners, patient and
should be non-judgmental if they come in the jobs of direct social interactions with
humans. Unfortunately, we, human beings, are not well-equipped with these
qualities which tend to worsen the attitude the people around us.
As I have mentioned before, author has covered a wide range of human problems
in the disguise of an extra-terrestrial life. The dominating theme is, of course, that
machines have the definite potential to overthrow the humans of this world. The
reason is that human beings are themselves their worst enemies. They are living in
the hopes to conquer and dominate the world at the cost of other humans. They are
envisaging machines in the future with perfect characters and ideals which they
would like to see in their selves but they are not ready to implement that upon
themselves. Also, author has suggested throughout the episodes that humans are
very weak, no matter, who developed they become. And that they have to care for
each other if they want to survive in the world. The machines do not want to hurt
people but they also cannot guarantee complete safety in the world. Because, doing
that would take away the free will of the people. The machines are there to serve
humans and makes things easier for them. Personally, I agree with the dominating
theme which I mentioned above, and I believe it is a wake-up for us before it gets
too late. Perhaps, I do not see machines living independently on their own without
humans but there is a possibility if humans devastate their kind then they would
only leave behind machines to live.