MAN ALMIGHTY

Man has forever tried to play God. Though all have been major failures up until today, some have reached almost the last stage of their pursuit and perished, never to return again. Scientists have since time immemorial tried to prove that science is and always has been above faith in God. And yet they have tried to emulate The Almighty but trying to create or re-create man-made wonders that only God has been known to be the creator of.

One example of such a wonder is in fact the Biosphere 2, but that we’ve already talked about. Sighting another example of man’s endless pursuit we would like to share something else that some of us might have known for quite a while now…consider this a reminder.

For years artificial intelligence has been on every scientist’s list of things to do. John McCarthy was the first ever to have coined the term. He defined AI as the study and design of intelligent agents”. Steven Spielberg on the other hand was the first to show ideas of AI to the rest of the world. Machines were built to that were touted out to possess intelligence that only humans would’ve had in an otherwise non-scientific world; i.e. the world that God built.

In the 1940s and 1950s, a number of researchers explored the connection between neurology, information theory, and cybernetics. Some of them built machines that used electronic networks to exhibit basic intelligence. Prosthetic arms and legs were built with cybernetic intelligence that was linked to the human nervous system. This made sure that the prosthetic body part could do everything that the original organ was capable of and in some cases even more. Variations were built; hands and legs that could stick to walls, organs that could move at an accelerated pace and other parts that possessed more strength than what God’s body part could ever achieve.

No matter how far man reaches in the world of artificial intelligence, it always seems as though he is at the starting point. However strongly man may feel like playing God, no matter how hard he tries, it will definitely take him much more than 7 days.