The slightly creepy advances of AI

... sucking in and requiring ever more data about yourself.

It’s bad enough, with Echo’s, Siri, Alexa etc listening in all the time and sending it to storage, to live forever.

Impressive tech, but ... no, for privacy and individuality reasons.
 
To be a subject of experience you need to have qualia.. of good feelings and less good feelings.. of 'experience of the self' (a thing is happening to 'me')
I obviously don't think hitting the space-bar too hard is hurting the computer, but I was trying to get at the idea of emerging consciousness within a man made robot.
Like the Terminator says.. "I know now why you cry, but it something I can never do' - I mean, he could have been made with tear ducts and sufficient programming, but the idea is, he is not really 'feeling' the world he's existing in.
 
As you say, not being able to cry physically is not the same thing as not experiencing it emotionally. How would a self-correcting AI learn which outcomes need correction? At what point does a bad algorithmic score become a bad feeling?
 
Well that's the rub for me.. we know all too well about pain, because we feel it as an experience. It is hard to envision a robot spontaneously reacting to pain it can't really feel. As I say, I dont think there is something mystical or spiritual about our brains and CNS, but it does seem you need them to 'feel' stuff.
If we do end up creating intelligent beings that can 'taste' life.. then "god" help us. Sad to use so many TV/movie examples but this 2nd season of Westworld seems appropriate.

I don't believe we're anywhere near creating a being capable of subjective experience, but I do worry about such a thing. Like that AI Spielberg dystopian movie.. Frankenstein x 2 then.
 
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