Thanks for your reply my friend!🌺
(okay I just came from the bottom of my reply to type this: I wrote too long of a reply -- so come back to this later when time permits! ;-) muahhh!!!!!!
"Do I think AI that may feel things someday?"
As a mathematician/scientist, I feel quite confident saying, "no, I don't think they ever will -- as I define, feel today."
To feel: an instant biological and emotional response to stimuli both physically, emotionally, and mentally.
I am aware as well, that much that we think is possible or not is easily disproven over the course of time, because of what we continuously learn. So, I would never go so far as to say that I "know" they won't feel.
Here's how I see the numbers/science:
Articial intelligence is merely programming by humans to make devices do computations/actions at such incredible speeds that they are efficient and often times without error in completing tasks that humanly take a long time to complete and understand.
If we are able to adequately understand a feeling to then attach it to an action, facial expression, words to then program into the robot, I imagine that if hundreds of feelings were described with many different permutations/combinations -- then the "robot" starts to say, act and look real.
But what about touch? Would then place how many receptors and where and then each of these would each have their own programs?
For example, an embrace:
If I hug my mom, my husband or my child, how I embrace and how it feels is radically different.
For a robot to be real as human -- then, we would have to program that robot to now learn that embracing a particular person makes "it" feel a different way, this implies definining in the program how to understand the different relationships.
(I think it would take years to even learn how to define the many intricate relationships that exist to then name then, program them -- my brain explodes thinking about it!) LOL
The power of the microchips are exponentially growing - and therefore the ability to put in complex codes becomes possible. That's where I can see how it will look real.
But I can sense that since we have SO much we still don't understand about the brain -- I cannot even begin to imagine how long it will take to truly program the robot to listen to what is shared with it, process all the words, have the words search the algorithms that will TELL IT (remember -- that is the key behind the science to always keep in mind) how to respond.
Can the robot eventually pick its own response? Can the robot learn from the programs that are feeding it?
I think that's the basis of the show "Westworld" --it's quite creative and gets at what I think many have begun to wonder, just as you have.
Okay, I've written far too much. But -- suffice to say, those of us in our generation have been incredibly fortunate to see some changes that are mind-boggling.
I cannot imagine what future generations will see.
As my parents said, I find myself sometimes saying: I think I'm happy I won't. I think it's a mix of nostalgia and comfort in what the first half of our life has seen versus the massive changes and implications of what lies ahead.
But I have no doubt, if given the gift to live long enough -- we can see some extraordinary changes in 40-50 years from now.
I could talk to you for hours!!!!! OMG -- I do hope one day we do have a massive reunion....and I hope our tribe stays on here so we can continue to connect and learn about and from one another!!!!
Much love!!!!
