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I would go further and say I believe animals have emotions, thoughts, and personalities too, but I would still say it was anthropomorphizing to suggest a comput
by maxbond 3y ago
I would go further and say I believe animals have emotions, thoughts, and personalities too, but I would still say it was anthropomorphizing to suggest a computer did (indeed, it would be anthropomorphizing to say animals have intuitions, thoughts, and emotions, it's just a less controversial leap). I'd be open to revisiting my view of computers if they bit me when I came back from vacation.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoI think intuition is just fundamentally fast labelling of things based on past experience. Emotions are more of a construct, that seems life specific, although AI could have it, I'm not seeing an obvious case for current AI to have it. While I see intuition in current AI. Again, intuition is just a neural net to me, while emotions are some more complex reward and motivation system that I'm not too certain about. I think emotions are largely developed to perform in social contexts. E.g. they are diplomatic constructs to assert oneself and communicate with each other so of course AI just out of the blue wouldn't need it. E.g. you get angry, to show that you are asserting yourself and so others wouldn't use you for their gain etc. Because it would be too costly to engage with an angry person so everyone negotiates their emotions with each other so things would seem fair and just. Thoughts could very well be just next token predictors though. At least my thoughts could be.