HokieTalks: Will intelligent machines become human?

[00:00:05] >> It becomes clear every day that technology is not just a technical issue it's a comprehensive set of issues that especially involve humanistic concerns. Because of the advances that are happening in a range of areas what we see is that as our society continues to be shaped by technology innovation we're going to be forced to contend with some fundamental questions such as who will get its account as human. [00:00:40] In a world where machines technologies are increasingly engineer for human behaviors to do things that people do and how do we protect human status of people who are more and more part machine or will intelligent machines become you this is one of the most interesting areas that we are facing with these comprehensive concerns many of you are familiar with some forms of these technologies this is an image of Amazon's Alexa which is a very common device now in many households or maybe you have it in your smartphone and you don't walk up to a lot type in commands or push a button you talk to Alexa in the way that you might talk to another person and Alexa will frequently talk back to you maybe you want to hear favorite music by an artist or you want the lights in your living room den or you want something added to your shopping menu but the kinds of technologies that are embedded in this device which is a form of machine learning technology or machine intelligence extends in many ways that advances beyond us so this is a. [00:01:59] And it and humanoid Ai