If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?
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As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.
  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I don’t see any reason why this can’t be discussed. I think people here are just extremely anti AI. It is almost like forcing AI on people was a bad idea.

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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      2 days ago

      i don’t even understand why it’s worth discussing in the first place. “can autocomplete feel?” “should compilers form unions?” “should i let numpy rest on weekends?”

      wake me up when what the marketers call “ai” becomes more than just matrix multiplication in a loop.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 days ago

        If it a broad discussion of intelligence then I could see it.

        I do agree that we are no where close anything that resembles actual intelligence

    • nandeEbisu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I think there’s a useful discussion for why these technologies can be effective at getting people to connect with them emotionally, but they themselves don’t experience emotions any more than a fictional character in a book experiences emotion.

      Our mental model of them can, but the physical representation is just words. In the book I’m reading there was a brutal torture scene. I felt bad for the character, but if there was an actual being experiencing that kind of torment, making and reading the book would be horrendously unethical.