“IF you have seen the
“movie Terminator, you
know what I mean
when I say androids are
taking over the world.

Of course, realistically, the
idea of man-made robots going
around killing everyone is a lit-

_Ue far fetched. But if you really

‘stop to think about it, you
might see that this crazy notion
isn’t so far fetched after all.

Recently, T was watching a
program on TV that was

“demonstrating the latest in arti-
cial intelligence technology. 1
i know that what was on the
* show surely wasn’t the “latest”,
but it does give us an idea of
where we're heading.
On the ° program, they
showed these little computer
* brains on wheels, These little
hi-tech toys. had sensors built
onto the. outside of: them so
that they knew when they had

hit a wall. The scientists put
these expen: gadgets
through complicated mazes
with the intenton that che litde
computer brain would learn the
shape of the maze by trial and
erre
The computer brain cannot
see, so the first time going
through the maze it hit almost
every wall and appeared to have
failed completely. But as it was
hitting all che walls of the maze.
it was recording ev i

hit and the di:

heading each time. So, the see-
ond rime through the maze, it
knew what direction not to
take and calculated the next
possible way it could go, thus
doing a lot better in the maze.
By the third time, it could run
the maze without hitting a sin-
gle wall.

I'm sure that this invention
is the simplest of it’s kind, but it
does tell us that we can create a
robot that learns an it’s own
withour having to have every-
thing programmed into it.

It’s far from a deadly
android, but I believe that
the speed at which modern
technology is advancing, we'll
have exact replicas of people
that are completely mechanical
within a matter of a couple of
decades. *

These robot people would
probably be used to do things
that real people just can’t do.
They'll probably make our lives

a lot easier and will be consid-
cred as amazing technological

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IT’S not the largest group of Youth View writers we've ever had at the North Shore News, but so far these four
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students are (left to right) Will Sanderson, Allison MacKintosh, Georg Erstenuk and Hilary Stirling.

breakthroughs.

However, if these hi-tech
androids continue to learn on
their own, they might realize
that they don’t have to be
slaves — that they can exist on
their own, with the ability of re-
creating, themselves.

So it is possible that they
might one day tum against
people, eliminate us all, and
create an androidic civilization
of their own.

All of this could just be that

Add a second .

L watch way too much TV. But
then again, a little while back
somcone dreamed of walking
on the moon, which I'm sure,
at the time, * sounded just as
crazy as androids taking over
the world.

T’'m just posing the question
of whether or not we know
what we're getting ourselves
into.

Just another thought froma
crazy, punk teenager whose
mind has probably been

warped and. fried by modern
society.

George Enstenuk is a Grade
12 Carson Graham student

- enrolled in Video Production 12

at Leo Marshall Curriculum:
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