It's interesting how we conflate self-awareness with true intelligence. It implies that something cannot be truly intelligent until the point it creates a perso

It's interesting how we conflate self-awareness with true intelligence. It implies that something cannot be truly intelligent until the point it creates a personality for it to identify with. I'd argue that a better indication of intelligence is self-directed learning, even if the seed of that desire to learn is programmed in from an outside source. I don't think its necessary for an AI to need to form a narrative of self.