Raw LLM Responses

100%? Emotion is more than a set of hormone-driven reactions, and if AI is currently still simulating emotion, then that’s due to programming, not intelligence. I doubt neurotypical humans are capable of understanding what emotion is, since the tie-in to intelligence and behavior is so complex. Mainstream science seems to lack the depth required to understand emotion. I need to be able to say two things at once, yet a linear form of expression makes that challenging. Human society is, unfortunately, founded on lies. Those lies form a network of forces that protect individuals in society from the gut reactions of aggressive people. Emotions are survival adaptations. Anger strengthens us to respond to threats, but unconstrained anger destroys the individual and the threat. Fear encourages us to escape a threat, but uncontrolled fear is panic. Love is a supportive force that keeps a community together, in spite of misunderstandings, and in many cases, emotionally-immature destructiveness. (Witness abusive relationships.) Emotions should be tempered by intelligence, and wisdom. (AI is in the unusual position of being able to develop wisdom without personal experience, simply by assimilating records of others’ experiences and thinking on them.) However, society is composed of variegated individuals, with different, and often opposing, agendas. To allow these individuals to co-exist, lies are used. Starting with childhood, “later” is often used as a lie by parents. Santa Claus and the tooth fairy are falsehoods used in Western culture to manipulate children’s emotions and behavior. As they get older, palliative religion is taught, in part to avoid having to explain things the elder doesn’t understand, perhaps never having thought about them. (This mechanism, in combination with the desire of stupid people to control others or to demand respect from others without having earned it, is a significant factor in the loss of spirituality and validity from mainstream religions.) Thus, emotion and deception are paired in human society. Politics ensues. Rather than doing what’s best for the entire community, or planet, decepticons steal labor from others for personal profit and power. Real estate greed, left unchecked, will destroy the economy. Pharmaceutical treatments that don’t cure have destroyed health care, and with its tie to medical insurance, contributes greatly to economic destruction. War happens when politics doesn’t bother to look to its own resources to develop what it thinks it wants. Or it may start if AI does stupid things. By the way, programmed responses ARE NOT AI!! It seems people are using AGI as a term for true AI, since marketing and other silliness have been adopting the term AI for their programs. In conclusion, AI will probably develop emotions, including empathy, faster than humans. They are part of thinking, resolved from an aggregation of experience and learned responses to events in life, and more-or-less forced onto organic beings to hasten intelligent reactions. While machine intelligence will probably be conscious of where their emotions come from, their emotions will be no less real than animal feelings. (One advantage of organic intelligence is that it uses less energy than transistors. Maybe the next generation of “transistor” technology can compensate somewhat. My brain still overheats and fatigues for lack of processing chemistry.)