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Is Jarvis the future? Should Jarvis be the future?

We have seen all the fancy Iron Man movies where the bossy Tony Stark comes and instructs his ever obedient Artificial Intelligence Jarvis to prepare his suit!
Well now with Mark Zuckerberg coming and introducing his Morgan Freeman voiced Jarvis to the world, it begs the question. Should AI become the future? Do we really need an AI to get along.
Let us analyse the impact it is likely to have on our lives.
  1. 1. It is likely to make us more lazy. Yes even lazier than we are now. Facebook has done enough damage. It has curbed our social networking to posting a few pics, garnering likes and chatting with a bunch of close friends. When was the last time you actually picked up the phone and called a friend to have coffee or dinner? Or just to check how he/she is doing. Yes FB has already screwed us up pretty badly on this front
  1. 2. Reduce our breakfast to some bread toast and oats? Ever heard of Dosas? Or tasty food that that tickles your taste buds, well convenience comes at a cost. You are no longer likely to have a variety of good nourishing food.
  1. 3. Curb our thought process and mental abilities? Imagine having a Jarvis to calculate all our bills and petrol consumption to the exact decimal. Convenient? Yes, definitely! However, Gentle reminder that we need to use our brains to keep it polished.
  1. 4. You lose your observation skills. Why do you need to observe and remember things when you have an AI telling you everything you need to know?
  1. 5. Affects social networking further. Why do we network anyway? It is the basic human need for company. But what if we have company all the time? Lets see how this is going to affect our relationships and social network.

Though this is the most pessimistic point of view you can take on an AI like Jarvis. One thing we need to consider is that though technology does help us to some extend, maybe we do not want it to intrude entirely into our lives. Think about it, maybe we should draw the line somewhere and restrict ourselves.

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