Artifical Intelligence

[Strange]

Can an AI really feel? Is it possible an AI understands our feelings, and reacts as if it had feelings but doesn't really? What is the difference between simulated feelings and real feelings?

 

 

A very good (and unanswerable) question. Do we only think other people have the same feelings as us because they tell us they do? Or is this "theory of mind" built into our brains? Is that relevant to your question?

[EdEarl]

 

 

A very good (and unanswerable) question. Do we only think other people have the same feelings as us because they tell us they do? Or is this "theory of mind" built into our brains? Is that relevant to your question?

I believe people have similar feelings because their brains are similar. I believe making an AI with similar feelings would be much more difficult than making a sentient AI. However, a sentient AI may be able to study human physiology and physiology; armed with this information and personal observation, an AI may develop a sense of how human emotions affect us. Subsequently, the AI may be able to mimic human-like emotions, for example anger and love. It might have a sense that loosing power would either kill it, but would it have a fear of death? Would it do anything to prevent being turned off, would it say, "Please don't turn me off," or would it just not care?