A funny look at the unintended consequences of technology

'A funny look at the unintended consequences of technology', by Chuck Nice, is a talk that is part of a TED event. Chuck is a comediant, but this time he talks about a serious issue (or future issue): the consequences of technology.

Sumary

Chuck Nice starts exlaining the consequences of a technology we havenowadays, the social media. When it all was created it was supposed to make us be connected with each other more than ever (Cchuck shows a photo of three girls, side by side, talking through the phone), it was supposed to help us communicate with other people all arround the world (Chuck shows a picture of a subway carriage: everybody is looking to his phone); the conclusion is that we are not more connected with other people, we are just connected to our devices. Then, Chuck talks about other unintended consequences of social media, such as cyber bullying or the problem of dating.

After that, Chuck critisizes autonomous cars, and then we get into the main part of his speech: the AI. He mentions the warnings of Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking about the AI, and he says 'the creation always despises its creator' (it's the moral of Frankenstein, even if Chuck doesn't say it) . To explain the situation, he asks the public what they think the AI is going to do when it discovers that we are destroying the planet (ther's one thing we can take for granted, that we'll have a problem). He mentions the problem of sexual robots as well. 

Finally he talks about biological engineering, and how it's goiong to change us as humans. It's scary, isn't it? Well, at that point Chuck comes up with a wise conclusion: technology isn't scary, what's scary is what we can do with technology. Chuck ends his talk with this question: 

The true question is, how human are we?

Opinion

Ther's a point I don't like of this talk, because at some point it seems that Chuck is critisizing things, for example autonomous cars, without explaining the positive consequences they can bring to the world. However, he's doing such a necessary task, he's awaring people of the consequences of AI, and we does so in an interesting way: firstly he talks about an example so people can understand that technology has unintended consequences, and then he makes people wonder about the unintended consequences that can have a powerful thing as AI.

Vocabulary

DMV 

Despise

Engineering (it's not a new word, it's just that I never know how to spell it)

Think out