The writer and journalist Juan Villoro said Tuesday in Pamplona, Spain, that the human being is “totally substitutable” in much of the functions he performs.
Author of the book “I am not a robot”, he starred in an appearance entitled “Technology and Culture”, in which he addressed the transformations of technology in the lives of people and the role of human being and culture in this new context.
This session was part of the Innova program, promoted by the Caja Navarra and La Caixa foundations.
The Mexican author claimed the error as a source of overcoming, because he hopes to “commit enough to seem still human, because perhaps the robots perfect rhetoric”, before the question of whether one day a robot can give this type of talk.
“The error remains one of the most important components of the human being. Not only because it identifies us as a species that is fallible, but because some of our greatest virtues come precisely from overcoming errors,” he said.
The prolific author also raised how the human being is becoming more substitutable by machines, since “it is estimated that 70% of the works we have may be made by machine in a short term.”
In this sense, he opened the debate about how far the limits of the new technologies and the ability of the human being to control them can reach, expressing that “we will probably be the second cognitive species of the planet and that is something new.”
“In the theory of evolution, it can be seen that numerous species have made the final sense of their existence to another species, which happened, for example, with the links that reach Homo Sapiens. We ignore our future, but I think we are contributing to build something that we cannot control,” he reflected.
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‘I am not a robot’, how Villoro explores the stimuli of the digital world
Given this new paradigm, Villoro chose precisely the paper format to raise all these issues in “I am not a robot”, where he tries to “think what is the place of this old device that is the book and how he intercepts with temptations, dangers, challenges and stimuli of the digital world”, as well as a defense of truth, before the proliferation of his antagonist concept, post -truth.
Villoro also claimed reading and books as “a challenge of militancy, act of dissent”, and that those who come into contact with books have “a liberating experience.”
“For many reasons, the first one is that the book interpens you, it does not have a univocal speech, we have different reactions to the same book. While the algorithms on which the entire offer of information in Red depends by similarity, the culture puts you in contact with things that you did not know that they could interest you. That is what a library is about,” he said.
In addition, he addressed the challenges of the media, which “are in danger from the economic point of view because the Internet emerged as a service that is perceived as something free, so that most users do not want to pay for online services” and also in the face of “the proliferation of fake news.”
During his presentation, Villoro clarified that he does not want to “assume the position of a nostradamus anti technology, that I do not think it is the answer, but to use the tools as means, not as ends in themselves.”
With EFE information
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