a life unaccounted for

"cogito, ergo sum."

That phrase means, "I think, therefore I am." It was written by Rene Descartes (a French philosopher). He was trying to figure out the world, and he decided that before you could know anything else, first you have to decide if you even existed or not.

I got that line in a book called "The A.I. Gang- Operation Sherlock" which is about a bunch of supergenius kids investigating about a secret project give to their equally genius parents.

Eventually,they learned that their parents were to make the ultimate machine-- not a programmed machine that can talk, or solve problems, or other tricks like that. They're going to make a machine that can think. More that that, they're going to make a machine that knows it thinks! A self-aware computer-- a computer that can say "cogito, ergo sum," and mean it! They're not just after artificial intelligence-- they want to bring it to life!

Presently, we live in a very highly-maintained society, where tasks became simpler and faster, a big thanks to different systems and programs.

These programs mainly uses a lot of clever keying devices, wherein preprogrammed responses were used-- everything's automatic.

But that holds true for humans, too-- a lot of what we do is automatic. The only difference is that we can think of new things. Maybe that is the center of the whole question of artificial intelligence-- does intelligence mean creativity, or awareness of that creativity?

We just have to remember that truly, artificial imtelligence upgraded our ways of life, but it doesn't mean that it has to be superior to man. Machine without man is still worthless, and in the first place, it is still the man that programs and, therefore, controls it.