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by xwdv 998 days ago
Why imitate human senses? AI should be able to reach out and touch radio waves, and interpret their meanings, much how we interpret the meaning behind gusts of wind.
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We can do both, but clearly the senses that mammals have are well adapted for existence on Earth.
Existence is how you interpret it. An AI’s existence might mean it has a very different interpretation of Earth.
Sure but when I ask you to pass the potato chips I want you to understand what that means and be physically able to do so. The five senses we know well are very well suited for that.
> reach out and touch radio waves

At the point we're describing "touching" massless particles, we might as well say that's what our retinas do. In terms of novel senses, some kind of gravitometric sense would be neat. LIGO-on-a-chip and all.