Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Composition (No. 7 - after correction)

Information Technology (IT) and communication technology is an integral part of today’s modern society. As IT is introduced into most areas of military life, it seems that the human factor is gradually diminishing from decision-making processes. But the human factor has to have the priority in the decision-making processes.
Firstly, information technology is not at such a high level to be able to make decisions on a full-time basis. The problem is not in fact how quickly the computer is able to trace all available ways of solving a specific situation, but we do not have the technologies to put in the computer memory as many well described situations as is necessary. Artificial intelligence, on what the decision-making process is based in IT, needs the huge quantity of relevant data.
Secondly, in future we will probably be able to collect, to order and to sort the tera or penta bytes of data. But, who will be responsible to put into the computer the result which situation from the real world the action has to be signed as the example of bad solution of the situation, and vice versa, which description of real activities has to be signed as permitted or which as the best way. Although the final resolution is individual every time and depends on many circumstances, only humans have ability to make decision, especially if it is connected with other human being. And, according to sentence fro ancients Greek: “You never would be in the same river”, it is very difficult to write in the computer program strict rules how to use the description of the similar situation “A” and the solution evaluated as the best solution of that situation “A” to find the best solution of the new situation “B”. The new situation “B” only looks like the situation “A”, it has never been the some.
Generally speaking, IT is not ready for building the artificial intelligence. Taking everything into account, the human being is the only one who is nowadays responsible for his action. And, the theory above is fully independent on fact if we are speaking about civilian or military area, even though it is possible to search some specific circumstances in the military life. But as I used only philosophical categories the ideas are applicable on both, military and civilian area.

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