Machines are becoming Human

The gap between “human” and “machine” is closing. Thanks to advancements in computer powering, machines are quickly coming closer in proximity and merging with the human body. Phones used to be attached to the wall but now are “attached” to our hands. The first clocks were a pedestal telling time from the position of the sun but now we wear watches on our wrist, headphones used to be big and bulky but can now be discreetly inserted into our ears, and we would keep track of time for medications but now have sensors insert under our skin to auto-pump them – and the list is ever growing.

Back in 1965, Gordon Moore, businesses man and engineer who co-founded intel, estimated that the number of transistors in microchips double. This means circuit sizes can get smaller and technology can be developed smaller and smaller with more power and efficiency to drive data. It’s 2023, so there have been 29 cycles into what is now microchip development doubling since Moore’s theory.

What does this mean for how close humans and machines can come together?

Well, have you ever watched the 2001 movie “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” directed by Steven Speilberg? While this movie was a spin off on Pinocchio, it holds some realism in the potential of computers. Scientists are striving to create an artificial brain, which uses machine learning to create artificial decision making, and maybe just one day we will have a humanized machine – an artificial being.

Without getting too much into the science fiction, this means that computers will continue to jump from big data to deep understanding. Computers be small enough to be implanted into your brain, nanobots within the body to transport and reconstruct medication and organs respectively, computerized contact lenses as subtitles to words, virtual arms with sensation through a screen, and many more.