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Yes but the technology we're discussing would almost certainly need to be maintained and verified by the banks at some financial cost?

I think it's vast oversimplification to say a situation like this is always ok. Legally, you may be allowed to do such a thing currently but it's obvious there's a moral grey area here.

Hypothetically, say technology advances and not only do we have sophisticated AI but the technology to copy and store human intelligence. You do just that for a friend and that friend passes away. You now have the only extant copy of your friends intelligence and you notice that it's extremely similar in composition and cognition as an AI you also have on your drive. Is it ethical to delete either? I'd lean towards no.

The Turing test isn't really a good indicator of AI development. I don't disagree with the idea that using sufficiently advanced AI for entertainment could create ethical quandaries though.

Could you or someone possibly elaborate on this? Why does UC Berkeley have so much better luck with startups and spin-off companies/technologies when compared to other public institutions?

That's assuming a consumer decides to purchase something solely based on price/product assortment and there's no impulse factor. One could very well be willing to purchase something at one moment but 30 seconds later be unwilling. I wonder if anyone has any data on time spent on a website vs. likelihood of making a purchase.