> ...A human uttering that sentence is doing it because they want to feel validated or something similar (well, assuming they're not proving a point, like I was

> ...A human uttering that sentence is doing it because they want to feel validated or something similar (well, assuming they're not proving a point, like I was here). > This difference is crucial to understand: LaMDA is not an agent with desires that it expresses in language... There is a flaw in that line of reasoning, because an AI could be designed to mimic or generate human-like emotions. Such functions could be part of its core programming. For that matter, how "real" are human emotions? Aren't they something the brain generates? If for example, you designed a robot to experience "pain" when kicked and damaged, how much less real would it be than the human equivalent? Consequently, for such an AI that was designed that way, it could be expressing an equivalent to various human emotions. That we would perceive its pain as "less real", could be partially a matter of how we evaluate its importance, as in robots or lower animals are lesser than.