Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Robots on 11/5

When I read computer programming and robots I was immediately turned off to reading this. But after the first sentence I was hooked. They related a once uninteresting subject to me to cooking which I couldn't take my eyes off of. The author used ethos in saying that about the time the computer programming teacher was comparing a computer to cake making, scientists were finding ways to create intelligent machines to think like a human brain does. She then starts to get into logos when she is making the argument that robot has a face or facial expression and relies on humans to teach it things but you cannot interact with it. If you had a robot over to dinner you could teach it all your guests names but it could not taste or smell all the human feelings ans senses. It would not have a working mouth and cannot eat or interact with guests and it could not desire, pleasure, or suffer. It would not have human wants, it would want what a machine wants; to be in good working order, attention from humans until it could learn on its own and take care of themselves. It is believed that eventually the robots will become so life like and enjoy math and figuring out patterns. Finally she used pathos in making the emotional appeal that she is not afraid of robots becoming us because she has to worry about what she will make for dinner and more important things but that maybe we will become them with the patterns of our lives.

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