Name: Saifullah B.

Panda
Subject: GEC 108- CNSM
Instructor: Mr. Johndell Canata

REFLECTION PAPER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The history of AI (Artificial Intelligence) is rather short and shows that this field has
progressed well in about sixty years. Indeed, we have gone from the first computer that makes
some calculations to machines. The movie, Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg, shows us
scenarios that polar caps have melted. Greenhouse gases have done their worst. And much of the
globe is under water. Technology makes up for human deficiency. Artificial intelligence is at its
highpoint. And that’s when David is born or more accurately built. He is the first robot child to
be constructed and the first to be given the ability to feel. Not just the sensation of pain or cold,
but the ability to bond, trust, love and hate. But he finds that still is not enough. He wants to be a
“real little boy.” He wants his mother to love him for who he is, not for the things he does for
her. So David finds himself on an all-too-human quest. And it leads him to places you’d never
dream of (or even have nightmares about). In ways you’d never think of.

Through the movie, we have understood that everything about David’s quest for love
radiates with valuable life lessons; Familial love, unconditional love, eternal love. One robot
remarks that the “ones who made us are always looking for the one who made them.” And
obviously, the journey to become “real” is really a journey to be accepted.

The idea of AI in the movie only proves that the possibility of creating a consciousness in
a machine is still uncertain. There are some limitations such as the fact that consciousness is
proper to living organisms, that machine does not have the appropriate language to have
intelligence similar to the human or that a machine can only calculate and not think. Hence,
there's no reason to expect that humans are any more special than bacteria in this universe and AI
to me just represents a natural advance of human evolution.