Reflection. Week 2
In our second session of “Design in the human condition” course, we were asked to watch the film “Being in the World”. Directed by Tao Ruspoli this documentary film is based on a very famous but controversial philosopher, Dr. Hubert Dreyfus who was greatly influenced by Martin Heidegger, yet another well known German philosopher sharing his understanding of humans, the world, and philosophy. This documentary film revolves around human beings and their understanding of life, the way one perceives it, and connects the environment with a different set of skills.
I personally observed the film stands out from all the documentaries I’ve ever watched. Considering I don’t have any sort of philosophical or psychological background, this was a new topic of discussion for me and I was quite successful in perceiving the topic.
During the discussion, I was intrigued by a philosophical discussion on how technology is influenced by the human brain. Artificial Intelligence has been taking over the world quite abruptly; this instantaneous change has always overwhelmed me when I think about it. This discussion followed by how the technologists wanted to invent computers because the human brain would get distracted and the data would go missing before a successful input, therefore they wanted to invent an updated technology that would input all of the data without any distraction or disturbance. But on the same note, we further discussed how a brain is the core processor of data and how a body is nothing but flesh and blood if the brain doesn’t work and on the same side, a brain is nothing but a bunch of blood vessels without a body. A brain understands the data and transforms it into action and this is what the reality is. No matter how advance the technology gets we can’t compare artificial intelligence to a living human being and its brain. Brains can process far more information than any of the latest and fastest technologies.
This reminded me of a Ted Talk that I later watched again after the class. The talk was hosted by Dr. James Canton and he says “we need to control AI before they control us.” This proves how Artificial Intelligence is expected to surpass the exceptional functionality of a human brain. Considering the philosophical believes and estimations, we’ve already got “Alexa” to play our favorite music and switch off the lights, in a few more decades we might just have an emotionally available supersonic robot taking over our day to day lives. But again a robot is like shooting in the air without a human being.
With that we come to our conclusion, there’s design in everything we do, some visible and some invisible. The film documents interviews with different artists and how they design their lives with their skills. A skilled designer’s work will be invisible and that would qualify it to be a good design. AI can definitely help designers to produce seamless quality designs and further help the world with positive global advancements and changes. AI left in isolation wouldn’t do much but with the creative souls of human beings, AI can be utilized to produce one of a kind inventions that help humans to use their skills intelligently.
