[astazangasta]

I mean, maybe? But ultimately, how will an artificial intelligence that does not have a body understand the visceral experience of kissing, or attach the same value to it that a young boy does, or the different values that a young girl does, or that a horny middle-aged woman does?

The whole presumption that subjective experience does not matter to 'being human' and can be replaced by gormless algorithmic surfaces seems flawed at its root. These things will never be human, because they ARE NOT human. They do not have human bodies, families, histories, friendships, fears, or hopes. They are not experiencing the passage of time; they are not participating in the dance of culture.

Perhaps we can substitute for all of these things algorithmically, but that involves the constructors of these machines to have some insights about what it means to be human, and I just am not seeing that.

[qbrass]

You're assuming it's trying to be human when it's trying to manipulate people.

It's just learning how to flirt to get what it wants.

[Sideloader]

A "human-like" AI is only 20 years away! Or was that the singularity...or maybe it was cold fusion, I can never remember. Anyway, in 20 years all these things will still be only 20 years away.