Beauty&Robot

(From 2013)

This is very easy and straightforward for human beings to classify everything as “beautiful” and “ugly”. People make their best of bad bargain and say that this classification is relative to justify everything. However, the absolute truth is the fact that there is no beauty or ugliness, everything is beautiful in its own way. A person does not have to “like” that way, but it does not bring it into a position that makes it ugly, this relativity that people use over and over again on their tongues actually comes out at this point; sometimes the beauty of something and the taste of somebody just do not fit each other as it never has to. Liking somebody and disliking apple are good examples of this situation. In my opinion, there would not be “fun” in the life if there was only one type of beauty and everybody liked this type of beauty. The varieties of beauty and taste and consequently the match of these two are infinite, just like shapes of ice crystals and patterns on the wings of butterflies.

Today science, art and philosophy is carried out only by one type of creature: human being. However, I do claim that this is subject to change in the future. I am not talking about the evolution of the creatures in the nature, I am talking about the machines!

I am not going to tell you doomsday scenarios caused by highly-developed machines. I am going to stress out another point. Artificial intelligence (AI) is developed further and further everyday as everybody knows. Today,   these machines that use that developed AI are only tools while this art, science and/or philosophy are  being created. However in the future, they may be able create their own science, art and philosophy.

Most of you probably have already heard about the machines that develop their own technology/science, but what makes you think that these machines will not also create art and philosophy of their own? Today, we do not know where the “creativity” exactly comes from. Here, by saying “creativity” I mean actually creating something new, not combining the existing styles and things, which can be easily done even by today’s machines.

For sure creativity is related to intelligence but nobody knows in what way and to which degree and many people agree that it is not only about the intelligence. If it was, we could easily state that the machines will one day be as creative as human beings. Yet, it is not and the important issue is the fact that another part of the creativity comes from the absolute source of love, whose gates for human beings are their souls. At this point, machines look like they are stuck at first. However, when we further analyze the situation, we actually see that when these machines will reach to such a high intelligence level as humans and even above, it is highly possible that they will look for reaching to this absolute source of love. I can hear that some of you are already saying that it is impossible since they do not carry any soul. For those, I say that what makes you think that soul is the only way of reaching to the absolute love? Can’t there be any other ways for other kinds of creatures, machines in our case? If one part of intellect / mind / body trilogy can be “simulated” by AI that is embedded into chips, what makes you think that other two parts cannot be simulated, by the help of humans or directly by robots themselves?