"Be Right Back"/"Geminoid DK Mechanical Test"/The Uncanny Valley/The Turing Test:

This week at the expense of Professor Curtis, the class indulged into an eerie tale of not supernatural, but machine doings, which surfaced questions about what's to come with an AI future. The themes in mind were presented by an episode of Netflix series "Black Mirror" Season 2 pilot episode. In this viewing a woman, Martha, becomes involved with reanimating her deceased husband, Ash. To make matters worse, she discovers that she is pregnant with his child. Through an anonymous service, she orders a prototype android that takes his form and surface personality. But problems arise as Martha takes him, or more properly, it, too intimately. Aside from the hard-to-watch "horrors" of modern life, this series opens with a grotesque poke at thought, I'll give it that much. Aside from the obvious illegitimacy of such circumstances, the forces at play here are very real.

Just take one look at a science and technology news website like IEEE Spectrum, or MIT's Technology Review. It is easy to see how wrapped up we are with making what was once a fantasy, a reality. The principles of morality and humanity must work hand in hand with those of scientific method and technological innovation if we are to create a newer, better world.

I'm thinking about at what point can a computer become life? The earth itself, can be thought of as a computer. I think soon the philosophical questions of what makes something sentient, rational, and human will be revisited.

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Inspire and educate oneself

AI: the FAQs

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608911/is-ai-riding-a-one-trick-pony/

Cyborgs ethical?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/ethics/the-ethics-of-using-brain-implants-to-upgrade-yourself