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Humans have motives in hardware. Feeding. Reproduction. Need for human interaction. The literal desire to have children.

This is what's mostly missing from AI research. It's all questions about how, but an actual AI needs a 'why' just as we do.

To look at it from another perspective: humans without a 'why' are often diagnosed with depression and self terminate. These ML chatbots literally do nothing if not prompted which is effectively the same thing. They lack any 'whys'.

In normal computers the only 'why' is the clock cycle.



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