In the past few weeks I decided to start a series that I had put off reading for a long time, Asimov's "Robot" series. I was prejudiced against the series, the ideas it carries and the universe of books because it was praised too much, quoted too much, referred to too much. I waited and waited patiently until the thoughts were fallow enough in my mind. As soon as I started the series, it took me a very short time to finish the first three books and I started the fourth book. In this article, I would like to share with you some of my opinions about the series and get your opinion, avoiding spoilers as much as possible.
For those who don't know, the series takes place in the future when humans are at the end of their lives on Earth and colonized in space. In the meantime, we witness a book universe that is utopian in terms of space colonies and dystopian in terms of Earth civilization.
Although the book seems to be about our future, I think it deals with a completely different structure than the potential future we are moving towards. For example, in the series, people carry out tasks that require thought power themselves, while robots carry out tasks that require physical strength. When we were thinking about whether robots would take our jobs from us in the past, I think we were imagining a universe exactly like the Asimov books, but now we seem to be moving towards a world structure where we are losing things that require creativity to artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence that can learn the paintings made by painters can imitate them with a few command sequences. Fashion show images and product photos prepared with artificial intelligence can be produced without any Photoshop knowledge. Artificial intelligence can write books for you according to certain criteria. Likewise, a person who is not very advanced in coding can dictate various code sections to artificial intelligence during programming. However, we are still doing the tea making. Of course, robots will exist in an Asimovian future order, but in the Asimov universe, robots specialized in terms of physical strength were emerging earlier rather than robots that developed in terms of thought power. In the books, we lost our physical jobs earlier than our mental jobs. Now I feel like we're going to lose our mental jobs earlier than our physical jobs.
I don't know what the future holds. The fact is that the idea of an Asimov-type dystopia is more appealing to me than the dystopia in which the Earth we live in is moving forward. I think the possibility of artificial intelligence taking over humanity may be a much more real risk factor in our real life. The biggest similarity I see between the book and reality is that people are so busy seeing the bad in each other that they are blind to the bad situations that AI/robots can create. Peace be with you.