I know it was a typo, but software that's sentimental as well as sentient is probably what we need, as opposed to the vast, cool and unsympathetic variety.
I think most proponents of strong AI include the idea that they should be built on the foundation of a "premise-state" compatible with our human ideals such as intrinsic respect for life, appreciation of complexity and diversity, decentralisation of power, privacy of thought and freedom of action, etc etc.
Which, sadly, demonstrates how far AI as a discipline has to go. I am much more encouraged by the development of Rommbas and similar that seek out an electrical outlet, and so are actually motivated to learn, by something akin to hunger.
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I know it was a typo, but software that's sentimental as well as sentient is probably what we need, as opposed to the vast, cool and unsympathetic variety.
I think most proponents of strong AI include the idea that they should be built on the foundation of a "premise-state" compatible with our human ideals such as intrinsic respect for life, appreciation of complexity and diversity, decentralisation of power, privacy of thought and freedom of action, etc etc.
Which, sadly, demonstrates how far AI as a discipline has to go. I am much more encouraged by the development of Rommbas and similar that seek out an electrical outlet, and so are actually motivated to learn, by something akin to hunger.