Man Vs Machine Persuasive Speech

Cormac McCarthy once said, “When God made man, the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make a machine. And the evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

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From mythology to science fiction, man vs machine has been often portrayed as a matter of life and death. I 'm sure you have all heard about the recent debate between Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook. Musk believes that machine will take over the world whereas Zuckerberg believes it will only enhance human capability.

We have seen since Industrial Revolution, that machines have increased the mechanical

Before this match, Deep Blue was inserted with 256 processors which would make it possible for the computer to examine 200 million possible moves at every second which the engineers called their ‘Brute Force Approach’.Unlike the computer, Kasparov wasn 't able to consider every move but he used experience and in this attempt to analyze the moves, he made the mistake of admitting defeat.In a TED Talk, Kasparov said that in 1985 at the age of 22, he became the world chess champion when he played 32 matches against various computers simultaneously at an exhibition and won each one of them. He said, “ That was the golden age, machines were weak and my hair was strong.” He believed that a machine’s triumph is a human’s triumph, something we tend to forget when man is surpassed by his own creation.

We have also seen Google’s Alphago beating Ke Jie, the Go world champion at ease.Ke Jie lost two games against AlphaGo on May 25, this year. The 19-year old Chinese player looked exasperated during his second match against Google’s artificial intelligence player. After 156 moves, Ke Jie was forced to give up. He had lost the first match by just a half point.

“Last year, I think the way AlphaGo played was pretty close to human beings, but today I think he plays like the God of Go,” Ke said to a summit audience after the game. He previously claimed that AlphaGo would not

Lee’s single victory showed that the artificial intelligence program was still fallible when countering unexpected moves. Google has since managed to take Ke by surprise: “There was a cut that quite shocked me because it was a move that would never happen in a human-to-human

Go match,” he said.

Does this mean that machines are bad for mankind? There are numerous examples of how machines are helping mankind in enhancing its capability and productivity.

Gone are the days of spending hours in the library for a small piece of information, now we have access to e-books and articles at the touch of a button. Or locating a place on a city map, now we have GPS which gives us an efficient route to our destination which is accident-free, less crowded in the quickest span of time.

Gone are the days of spending so much money and time to send a message to people living in other parts of the world, well now we have Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook which has made life so easy that blur the border distance. What about watching movies at home, who doesn 't love that? Netflix has made it so easier to this.

Disabled, less fortunate and disconnected people are also connected to the rest of the world through machines.

Who could be a greater example than Professor Stephen