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Robotics and artificial intelligence is the way of the future. Imagine sitting at work and your co-worker is a robot, not just a robot but one who looks like a human, seems a bit far fetched but as predicted by The National Intelligence Council(NIC), a United States government think-tank and research group, technologies will be advanced enough to assume low skilled jobs by the year 3025(Lohr, Steve). Generations beyond this day and age will find it normal to talk to computers just as Siri on the I-phone has become apart of our society. With proper support for emerging technologies, we can have intelligent transportation networks that run as efficiently as factories(Noor, Ahmed K). “Our young children and grandchildren will think it is completely natural to talk to machines that look at them and understand them,”said Eric Horvitz, a Microsoft research laboratory computer scientist.(Lohr, Steve) Robotics and artificial intelligence presence in society is increasing greatly every day with increases in technology.
Born in Petrovichi, Russia, sometime in late 1919 or early 1920, immigrated to America with his family when he was three, and grew up in Brooklyn New York, Issac Asimov, considered to be one of the leading writers in the genre of science fiction , advanced societies perspective on robots enormously.(“One Robot”) Issac Asimov created three “laws” for robots; a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, a robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law, and a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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