BSC-1005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Synthetic Biology
17 Nov 2016
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Intelligence is a property generally thought of to be uniquely associated with human life, and possibly some other animals. Artificial intelligence is a subject with a variety of societal implications. Computers can be thought of as intelligent, since it can come up with solutions unknown to humans and can out beat human minds when it comes to mathematical games such as chess. Similar to computers, a vast amount of science fiction deals with scenarios by which intelligent machines take over the world. Reality is that computers generally tend to make people"s lives different but better in too many ways to describe. Law is another field that must continuously adapt in response to technological advancements such as synthetic biology. Law is influenced by public perception and the ethics (morality) of those people to be governed by laws. Inventors who create new ideas can protect those ideas in the form of patents.
