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</span>There's only so much that a system can do without being
'conscious' (in the sense that we think of ourselves as conscious -
having theory of mind, being self-reflective, etc.). If an AI is
created that's able to function as a member of society, it will need
to have these things, so empathy will be within its capabilities.<br>
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There will be a point at which we have to include certain AI systems
in the definition of 'people', and ultimately, of course, they will
have far more of whatever it is that makes people people, than any
original human being could ever have. I expect that any quality or
ability that you can attribute to humans, will be possessed by
super-intelligent, super-conscious AIs, in spades, plus ones that we
don't have and probably can't even imagine.<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Recent books by Damasio and Sapolsky show conclusively that without emotions, people just cannot make decisions that make much sense. For the technically minded, it's about the connections between the ventromedial Prefrontal cortex and the limbic system.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Are AIs somehow to be equipped with superhuman emotions? What would that mean? Some probability statement about the likelihood of something occurring and a preference for the highest one? Or, depending on the situation, for the lowest one.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Intelligence must now include emotions - it's not all rationality and never was. Historically,of course, emotional decisions were regarded as greatly flawed and to be avoided, and now we find out that we simply cannot avoid them. They are absolutely necessary.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">As a social psychologist that makes sense to me. Attitudes are defined in such a way as to denote that a leaning towards something means liking, and vice versa. A purely intellectual group of thoughts is an opinion - not an attitude. In other words it's neutral and we have no inclination to act in any way about it. There is no decision to be made concerning it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">_________________<br>
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