[ExI] ai emotions

[Stuart LaForge]

Quoting Brent Allsop:

>   Intelligent people, at least will understand how we can  
> objectively know the difference between these 3 robots that are  
> functionally the same, but qualitatively and emotionally very  
> different.  Abstract AIs deserve no compassion, no matter how they  
> behave.

By your logic, Mary deserves no compassion before she is released from  
her colorless prison. I am not quite sure that many examples of an  
"abstract AI" exist since neural networks usually map real world  
inputs to abstract outputs. For example face, recognition software  
would learn to map images of your face to the abstract string of  
letters "Brent". How is that fundamentally different than one of your  
friends recognizing you in the mall as "Brent"?

Your notion could set a bad precedent. What if someday AI think humans  
deserve no compassion because we are not able to phenomenally  
experience ultraviolet or radiowaves? Or that we are not conscious  
because we are not phenomenalogically conscious at nanosecond time  
scales.

Stuart LaForge