The Developing Link Between Man and Machine

            To stay in the lines of the cyberpunk genre for this class, I wanted to talk about the ever-changing boundaries between humanity and technology.  Everyday technology is becoming more and more advanced as seen by the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in society.  For example, nowadays people are using AI technologies such as ChatGPT, OpenAI, and DALL-E for anything from helping out with research, creating full-on noncopyrighted images, giving people life advice and basically information for anything that the mind can think of.  AI’s primary focus used to be for solving mathematical calculations or processing data, but as one can see, it has since shifted into a far more creative tool, performing tasks that were thought of to be only capable of by humans.  Another example is that there is even AI music out here.  There is AI out here winning actual awards for creating songs and that were even capable of mimicking the voices of popular artists (some who are even deceased).  The problem today is that with AI being able to make all of these different forms of media, lots of laws are being put in place and/or adjusted to answer the discontent of artists’ worry of copyright of their work.  In all I think that this level of change of how technology is implemented by society was bound to occur sooner or later.  Humanity is always looking forward and are never at rest especially when it comes to tech.  We’ve had these ideas of AI, robots, and cyborgs for decades now.  The only reason that I would say that they don’t already purely exist yet is because we just haven’t fully figured it out yet (not including all of the views of whether these inventions would be considered wrong or right). If you were to ask what I thought about these changing times with AI, I would say that it is indeed interesting and I am excited to see what the future has in store for society.