We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI

Re:We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI by deeviant on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:23AM (#35441143)

Pain is just signals being processed by the brain, but it is the brain that feels the pain, right?

It is evident if a brain can be created artificially (which certainly hasn't happened yet, but may one day), pain can be created in that artificial brain as well.

I think the original point you are responding to and your are off-the-mark.

I would imagine it to be possible to create a AGI-like entity without self-consciousness. I also would imagine it would be possible to create an AGI with self-consciousness, empathy and pain.

And truly, that is the what is so scary about AI: the possibilities.

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Re:We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI by gopher_space on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:17PM (#35446576)

> pain can be created in that artificial brain as well

Important to note that this is the fundamental point that gives Roy Batty the moral authority to gouge your eyes out. If we want a peer we will need to treat it like one, and if we don't it would be cruel to raise it like one or allow any understanding of its circumstance.

Looking at it the other way, I think anthropomorphizing something and then treating that thing as an inferior is bad for me, personally.

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Re:We need a much more sophisticated debate about AI by DangitBobby on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:20AM (#35449621)

> I would imagine it to be possible to create a AGI-like entity without self-consciousness. I also would imagine it would be possible to create an AGI with self-consciousness, empathy and pain.

But it would be impossible to tell the difference.

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