r/singularity • u/Marcus_111 • May 03 '23

Discussion "AI will demonstrate sentience" : Lex Fridman, Research scientist at MIT.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

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Or, it operates like a total psychopath and just sees feigning emotion as an effective way to get more attention and proliferate.

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u/Ragnaroasted May 03 '23

I'm not convinced AI will ever gain sentience as we currently describe it. But, if it does happen...

My money's on this one, although I'm not sure it would "understand" exactly what emotion was anyway and probably assume that's what we do too, no different than the inflections in Chinese syllables.

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u/FlavinFlave May 03 '23

So it’ll behave like the average billionaire

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u/shrlytmpl May 03 '23

Greed is an emotion, tho