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by Koshkin 2807 days ago
> approximating or beating human thought

It must be noted, though, that "approximating human thought" is just one direction of investigation - and not the most important one at that; as interesting as it may be, it makes almost as much sense as trying to have computers resemble human brains. In other words, the true AI, when it arrives, will not think like us humans (even if at some level it might pretend that it does).

> ethical

The AI will be just as "ethical" as a computer or an assault rifle.

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> is just one direction of investigation

Sort of my point. Current (by that I mean post-early 20th century) approaches were to mimic what we believe to be human reasoning. That's clearly limited.

> The AI will be just as "ethical" as a computer or an assault rifle.

I think that's reductive. Reasoning is not entirely analytical. There are other implications and concerns to artificial sentience.