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Repeating the words thousands of humans have written about emotion doesn’t meant it feels them. A sociopath could define empathy and still be missing the deeper experience behind the emotion.



A chatbot nearly capable of passing the Chinese Room thought experiment test is pretty damn impressive. But I think people get too hung up on the one golden moement/tech/product/innovation that changes everything. We've been riding a nearly vertical population, wealth and computer capacity curve for nearly two generations now. We are living through the singularity. Things are already like they have never been before. Billions of people can expect some level of social security, justice and opportunity to pursue life changing income now. This is nothing short of amazing. For most of History most people have been hard working, sickly and oppressed farmers.


Someday, when the AI releases a nanobot swarm comes to kill us all, a philosopher's last words will be "yes, but is it truly intelligent?" before he is broken down into biodiesel that will be used to power the paperclip factories.


That can also be scary. I think you have a valid point, and that would mean the AI 'thinking' is more similar to a Sociopath. Can still be 'human' if just a broken human, or what some have also called 'alien'.




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