The Jetsons Research Paper

The future of artificial intelligence

One of the most iconic shows that ever graced television sets was The Jetsons. The Jetsons was a show released in the 1960s – an age in which “Apple” was just a fruit – which represented a family living in the 2060s complete with flying cars and autonomous, artificially intelligent robots. The Jetsons was immensely popular among that generation in its attempt to depict what a future utopia would look like. Since then, many others through various mediums have tried to predict the unknown future, whether it’d be through TV shows, books, magazine articles, or movies. As seen through Blade Runner, Artificial Intelligence, and I Robot, humans have tried to imagine what life would be like with robots
According to Sciencedaily.com, University of Twente (UT) researcher Frank van der Velde is getting one step closer to converting this science fiction into a reality, “a robot that feels, sees and, in particular, thinks and learns like us.” He’s creating robots, known as iCubs, that are almost fully capable of all human functions, just like the robots seen in The Terminator and other such movies that see, think and feel just like humans. It was only a couple of years ago that creating a robot that operated only through instructions was considered a milestone, and now the standard has been raised to robots that act every bit human as a regular human does. As evidenced by Velde’s work, technology is advancing at a rapid rate, where humanoid robots are no longer some fantasy or a science-fiction enthusiast’s inventions, but are an imminent aspect of society in the foreseeable
Artificial Intelligence is a film that was released in 2001 that gives a glimpse of a future of humanoid robots. The main character, David, is a prototype of humanistic robotic technology called mecha. He is a robot that closely resembles a human, especially due to his ability to produce emotional love. He is taken in by a family, but later removed from the family for cutting his mother’s hair because they thought he was too dangerous and tried to kill her, even though he wasn’t acting out of cruel intentions, but out of his desire for his mother’s love. Here was the humanoid robot David, a robot created to love, not destroy, yet he still ended up destroying. He caused destruction with the intention of seeking love, of being a human; it wasn’t a program or code that caused his one destructive act. David and the movie Artificial Intelligence show us that although humanoid robots may seem to be made with the best intentions and programmed to do the right thing, this very thing could cause