Aiko,cyborg,transhumanism and the future

Vietnam born and canadian inventor Le Tung has created a female robot called Aiko at a cost of $25000.Aiko has unbelievable housekeeping skills,a page 3 pin up face,an enviable 32,23,33 contour,shiny hair,can talk English and Japanese,can do mathematics and manage accounts.Aiko is touch sensitive and reacts the natural way when showered with affection or hurt,recogonises faces says hello.she knows what drink Le tung likes and what he eats.Helps Tung with directions when they go out.Aiko can move her hands,nod head.She is patient,intelligent and never complains and above all she is just 20 ,5 foot tall,has silicone breasts says Le tung.Aiko undoubtedly is a perfect wife.Aiko means'Love child' in Japanese.Aiko can talk 13000 sentences in Japanese and English.She can tell about weather in all international cities through internet links.Le tung goes out for public outing with Aiko.Aiko is the first human robot to mimic pain and react to it.It took Le Tung 1.5 months to build Aiko.But it took years for him to program.BRAINS is the software used in Aiko to control artificail Intelligence (AI),speech,reading,doing maths,vision,colours,hearing,automation,sensors,temperature,face and object recogonition.Aiko can react to surroundings and environment also.Le Tung says future abilities of Aiko would include the following

"Facial expressions

Make Tea and Coffee

Feed Sushi to Tung

Making breakfast : Egg and bacon

Lying on Aiko's lap she would clean Tung's ears with Q tips

Ability to massage Tungs shoulders and neck

Able to print and write

Clean the windows

Dust the shelves

Clean the toilet and much more " says Le Tung

What more could be there except delivering a baby ?

I agree lot of positives from this technology can be utilised in various other fields like using mechanised limbs for those with amputated limbs,face recogonition can be utilised in investigations,intelligence services.But I strongly feel there should be some limits imposed on such future inventions.Integration of humans,computers and bioelectronics beyond a limit could have far reaching social consequences.The inventors of these technologies might try to implant these bio gadgets into human beings to augment capabilities or performance.That could prove fatal.It must be borne in mind human beings are not biological machines.There is much more and human beings are unique.It is foolhardy to stretch human capabilities and build organic humans with robotic capabilities.

Mind reading

A Japanese research team has developed a technology that would display on a screen what is in your mind.This may help in investigation.But I consider it as a blatant violation of one's privacy.Here the electrical signals of the brain are reconstructed in to images.Stretch your imagination and see how all this could be misused and the resultant chaos in every field you can imagine,be it official,familial or political.

Where do we draw a line and decide what is ethically right for the human race?Who will do it?I am not against technology or inventions.But there should be a right balance.Earlier robots were mere machines.But current robots are cyborgs containing mesh of flesh,wires,neurons,steel,blood and circuits.Or one may call it androids.There are organic components.In otherwords a human transformed in to a machine.Yet there is something called humanity,I mean the humane emotions.That gives me some hope, all that is human can not be duplicated.But the transhumanists will continue their attempts to radically change the human life.Future and posterity can only asess the psossible ill effects of transhumanism.