Wrongdoing happens in all occupations. However, unethical behavior in nursing can jeopardize the well-being of patients or even result in fatalities. That is why it is imperative for nurses to stay vigilant and report improper behavior. When nurses blow the whistle, it means that they are revealing an unsafe, unethical or illegal circumstances. The issue can be reported internally to someone in authority or externally to people outside of the healthcare organization. The American Nurses Association (ANA) believes that respect for the inherent dignity, worth, unique attributes, and human rights of all individual is a fundamental principle. The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety and preserve wholeness of character and integrity (ANA). Nurses must always stress human rights protection and uphold the values and ethics of the profession.
“Can machines think?”, the notion of Artificial Intelligence was first, seriously, contemplated by Alan Turing; considered by many as the ‘father of computer science’. At first glance, especially at the time this question was first asked, one might dismiss it quickly – how can it be possible for a machine to think, they simply do what they are programmed to do.
Picasso himself said “Computers are useless…They can only give you answers”, however as argued by Domingos, in his book The Master Algorithm, “Computers aren’t supposed to be creative; they’re supposed to do what you tell them to. If what you tell them to is be creative, you get machine learning.” At present artificial intelligence is a popular topic of discussion in the tech community, with companies like Google investing billions of dollars into research. However, with all of this discussion the notion of a ‘technological singularity’ has been raised. A singularity is defined in the Oxford dictionary as: “A point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space–time when matter is infinitely dense, such as at the centre of a black hole”. A technological singularity, however, refers to the hypothesis that the creation of artificial superintelligence and other various technologies will result in a fundamental change in human civilization.
At one point in time it was certainly true that computers did not know anything that humans were not already aware of, a computer’s ‘mind’ consisted only of code written painstakingly by a computer programmer, therefore insinuating that the computer could be no more ‘intelligent’ than the one who programme it. Even if the computer was able to perform complex calculations with near perfect accuracy, can it be considered intelligent if it cannot perform any other tasks? Turing provided us with one way we can measure intelligence of a computer in his paper entitled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”. The Imitation Game, more widely known now as the Turing Test involves three players, an interrogator, a machine and a human. The interrogator must converse with the two other players (via a keybo
