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Max, the author of this article claims that a day will come or has already come, when technology will surpass human intelligence. This is the time when sophisticated technology will reprogram itself to be even more sophisticated and the pattern will go on until these programs will be completely get out of human control. Max states the thesis of this article later in the article after he gives evidence of people love and change hand in hand with the changing environment by embracing sophisticated technology. After giving various examples of how technology has beat human beings in various activities like playing chess, driving and performing better in industries, the author understands the fear that comes into people’s lives if at all there is even a one percent probability that singularity might occur as predicted by various technology scholars. The thing that makes it even worse is that whether it will occur or not, nothing is being done to clarify these claims because no one is worried. It is undeniable that technology advancements upgrade and enhance human beings as they become even more sophisticated. However it is important to note that it becomes a threat to human existence and it is wise to mitigate these advancements before technology bring human existence to extinction.

The author argues that other people believe that there is no day computer technology will surpass human intelligence, and they educate that these sentiments have erupted as a result of human imaginations when they visualize the future. With impressive examples like computers being able to drive biter than human beings and playing chess better, Max Tegmark easily explains to his audience in a more authoritative tone by stating that over again, people have failed to see how important their lives are and even though they do not do a lot to appreciate it, no one would like to give it all away. Technology has immensely improved life but with more advancement in the field, more and more inventions are taking root. These inventions have been developed to have superhuman intelligence and therefore are smarter than humans. Even though these are impressive achievements, people need to ask how safe these developments are. I also agree with the author’s observations that the current machines have superhuman intelligence yet they might be used to design devices with more intelligence and this may pose a risk to human existence. They might get out of human control. The audience are then brought to critically think about grave questions like “So what will happen when machines operate each other?”

With easy to understand language, authoritative tone, well-chosen words, well organized and flow of ideas the author identifies an audience who are not careful of how technology will bring human existence to doom. So as to convince this arrogant and ignorant people, he uses immense real life examples, impressively reasoned our facts and observations to pass across this critical information. The facts the writer includes in this article have immense evidence and gives the audience limited ground to for counterarguments (Joseph & Wilkerson, 2003). From the writer’s point of view his audience gets to understand how this might completely change the understanding of human civilization because the computer might start to self-improve themselves and therefore get more and more intelligent and this might cause an intelligence explosion. Another fact he gives it that in the next twenty years, machines have been predicted to achieve singularity. It all started with the human being developing computers, these computers over the years have continued to increase their power making it possible for people to create machines that are more powerful, effective and solve many problems around the environment of human beings. When devices have been set up to have superhuman intelligence, they may rewrite their software that can surpass human understanding and then create even more intelligent machines which will completely go out of human control because they can barely be understood how they operate by people.

The tone used in this article is serious and confident. This is because the topic being discusses is immensely of great importance and no one gets funny when talking about threatening factors to human existence. Confidence is enhanced through the use of examples and evidence that has been used to show the gravity of the situation of the exponential growth in the computer technology that will bring about singularity in the next few decades which might lead to human extinction (Kim, 2015)

The article has not been well organized even though it starts with a catchy sentiment of what is there about life that the reader should be concerned and careful to know about. The audience may first not understand the immense creativity the author uses in this article because at first, it is challenging for them to fully understand what the main subject of the article is but the impressive framework makes it easy for the reader to fulfil their expectations. There is also the completeness of ideas and logical progression in the article (Probst, 2014). With carefully selected words and examples, the reader is motivated to read on. As facts start one by one to reveal themselves, it heightens the reader’s curiosity to know exactly what the writer is communicating and what the conclusions are about technology and its impacts on human existence.

References

Joseph, L., & Wilkerson, G. (2003). Analyzing Short Stories. Virgnia: Routledge.

Kim, J. -H. (2015). Understanding narrative and inquiry. London: Oxford Unniversity press.

Probst, R. (2014). Response and analysis. NewYork: Sage Publications.