Artificial Intelligence has and will influence many things, but have we really thought how it will influence music? Today, some programmers program robots into playing jazz for example or even rock, but all of this is still programming. Yes, this is impressive although there are some things that are being created today that create a greater sense of surprise and even fear. Improvisation is something human, since we all can improvise in some way, but a robot making this and in the music industry? Well, that isn't normal. Another important thing that the user Weedback mentions is the Turing Test that is being applied to society today. This test consists of some judges, a robot and a human. With this, the judges ask questions to both the robot and the human without knowing which answer belongs to which, and the idea is that if the robot fools more or equal than 30% of the judges, it passes the test. Up until today no robot has passed the test, but they're getting very close. For example in the music industry, some robots today are able to improvise notes and rhythms adding up into a song and sounding extremely similar to a human being. With this we can notice how even music can be controlled by robots in the future and how the art of it can be lost in the blink of an eye.

The author simply mentions that it's not bad to continue developing on artificial intelligence, but it should have its limits. The new inventions today seem to bother him, since he describes this as "mind-boggling and disturbing". The reliability of this article isn't that strong, since it is also a blog. Blogs can reflect anyone's opinions and thoughts about anything, therefore they don't give much background of the authors and sources, but it's still a good thing to analyze them since they have good stuff to look at. The bias of the article's author pretty much balanced. At the introduction to his thesis, he mentions that he loves robots but then criticizes their misuse in society.

My reaction towards this topic is intriguing, since I find the music industry extremely interesting. Music technology involving recorders, synthesizers, etc. have always caught my attention and this I found even more interesting. Although people could say that robots will probably surpass the human brain capacity, I believe that this term is much different to human creativity. Music is an art, and an art cannot be painted by a mere robot, but it has to be created from the heart, from inspiration and from experience. Robots will not have these tools in order to attain this creativity and therefore I believe they will not surpass our brains when taking about these terms.

http://gigdoggy.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/artificial-intelligence-mastering-music-robots-now-improvising-coherently/

Some people such as Bill Gates predict many things of our future. One of these things is how he predicts that by 2025 we will be able to buy a robot to do our chores at home and maintain our house neat and organized without effort at all. Although these robots won't be as most us picture them (shaped as a human with hands and feet), they'll be extremely revolutionary when thinking about technological innovation. Examples of robots already made are the TASER, the Quirl, and James the Robot. They include many interesting and important advancements: the TASER can open doors, grasps objects, and operate light switches; the Quirl, weighing 600 grams and having the size of a credit card, has the ability to wash windows automatically operating vertically; and James is the first robot to follow one of Asimov's Laws of Robotics, "a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm".

The article doesn't show an specific author, but it mentions that the information used in it is from ICT Results; an editorial service created for the European Commission to showcase EU-funded ICT research and activities. The article though, doesn't seem all that reliable since it doesn't show that the source (ICT) has correct information. Also in ICT's web page, they don't give much background about so I wouldn't know if they've lend their information to many or few other articles. The article also seems biased towards the U.S, since they've only put information on how the U.S has advanced in technology instead of also including other countries. The author also bases his information on Bill Gates, again mentioning the U.S only. Predictions include how Gates plus the author guess that in 15 years we will use this new kind of technology in everyday life.

I believe that "robotic butlers" will aid our society a lot, because it will permit us to escape from house chores for example, therefore letting us work on something more important. As all technological advancements, I do believe this new kind of technology will both benefit us but harm us as well. If we do not control our minds and create an robot with intelligence equivalent to the humans', there is a chance our world would end in a Terminator-ish kind of way. Still, my guesses towards this topic is that with the exponential advancements we're making, we will be careful not to surpass the limits and we'll make robots something better for our society, not mattering if they are used to clean windows or even to discover new planets.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924085551.htm

We've all probably have asked ourselves about what would happen if machines would mix or bond with our own human DNA, but have we really thought about what would happen if this had already happened? Well, the answer isn't simple, but we can probably predict that we are not far of creating the cyborgs we see in science fiction stories. As Michael Anissimov explains in his article, people with pacemakers, cochlear implantscd, or heart pumps are already cyborgs since this is already a mix between a body and a machine. Although these aren't major advancements when thinking about cyborgs, scientists are already in the making of artificial ears, noses, eyes, bones and even organs. These inventions would be useful to make a blind person see again or make a person on a wheel chair be able to walk again, and we will be able to benefit from these by giving us a greater life span and by having a very good humanitarian value.

Michael's article is a reliable article I suppose, since he has studied to be a science/technology writer and a "futurist". I also believe his article is reliable since he has contributed about 1,600 articles and had about 68 million hits in 2008. He then made a blog of his own named accelerating future, which has had about 5 million hits already. Although he normally just does educated guesses about what will happen in the future (futurist), this is probably one of the few ways of predicting the future and I believe that by researching a lot and by having good evidence, an educated guess could be very near to what will happen next. Michael predicts that somewhere by 2030 and 2040, we will have already created artificial body parts, since we already have a lot of advanced technology that can be used for these purposes. Examples that he used in his article are how we already have printers which print skin tissue cell by cell or even synthetic bones. Although these aren't as strong as natural skin, this is a great advancement for human society and at the exponential rate that we're improving technology, Michael guesses that with all the funds that are being directed towards the case we will have "science fiction cyborgs" in no time. He also mentions many of the benefits of this new kind of technology, showing how he agrees with this advancement.

Another important fact about Michael is that he seems to be more biased towards creating new body parts other than saying this would be a negative aspect towards society. Others might think that replacing our organs would be contradicting the laws of nature and that we humans are made to be born, to live and then to perish instead of just trying to live forever. I personally think that it would be beneficial for society to create such apparatuses but to an extent, for if we surpass this limit we would be living too much and society would have a dramatic change in every aspect.

I believe that this advancement will actually be good for society because people will be able to live longer and would help people with severe injuries or illness. Also, this new technology is still inevitable since us humans only want to continue on advancing in any possible way and we will try to attain inmortality for as long as we live. My opinion towards this topic is very similar to the one of Michael, since I do believe we are making such a big progress in society that we will eventually be commercializing artificial body parts and who knows? probably we will continue developing this and finally create a completely artificial body with an artificial mind: one that would think for itself, one that would have artificial intelligence.

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-close-are-we-to-developing-cyborgs.htm

An Actual Cyborg Video: http://www.silicon.com/videos/features/2010/02/08/artificial-intelligence-ex-cyborg-kevin-warwick-on-mixing-man-and-machine-60996180/