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So one... what you propose is purely hypothetical. One could construct a almost infinite number of different scenarios 'bridging the gap' between how a superior emotional intelligence might view humans vs. software on a computer that humans created.

Two.... we are labeling these programs AIs' but, IMO, we have never actually created an artificial intelligence... we are creating expert systems. Labeling them as AI is just hype.

Three... there is a massive fundamental difference between a biological organism that displays innate intelligent (humans, Orcas, cats, dogs, raven, bonobos, etc.) and software humans write that is compiled [by software we designed] to run on electric circuits we designed and created. Consider that, today, we can deterministically map a running neural net algorithm to electrons moving in fabricated material structures on a GPU or CPU... in explicit and complete detail if we really want to... there is no magic or mystery hidden from us; we designed it all. We certainly cannot do this with an animal brain and is doubtful that we will ever be able to map a single logical decision made to the extraordinarily complex chemical dynamics happening within the animal brain... today, we can only observe general dynamics using fMRI and the other techniques but with very poor spatial and temporal resolution. We need orders of magnitude better space/time resolution to observe real time brain chemistry, and possibly quantum mechanics tells us we'll never get there. Neural brain chemistry is orders of magnitude more complex than any circuits or fabricated circuits we will ever be able to design and fabricate with any sort of yield.

I am not trying to take away from the cool/wow factor of ChatGPT and other systems... they are impressive achievements and are going to get better, add more features and capability, etc. But they are still just expert software systems.