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Can AI be considered sentient?
However, one aspect of AI getting less attention, perhaps the next big thing, is artificial sentience. So, in this case, we are referring to artificial emotions. I’m not arguing for an actual emotional experience, but the capability to show the proper emotions to communicate with humans.
Can an AI have emotions?
Currently, it is not possible for Artificial Intelligence to replicate human emotions. However, studies show that it would be possible for AI to mimic certain forms of expression.
Are any animals self aware?
Over the past 30 years, many studies have found evidence that animals recognise themselves in mirrors. Self-awareness by this criterion has been reported for: Land mammals: apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and gorillas) and elephants. Cetaceans: bottlenose dolphins, killer whales and possibly false killer whales.
Is it possible for an AI to become sentient?
Yes, an AI program can become sentient. Ray Kurzweil while giving a lecture at Singularity University on The Accelerating Future stated that human body is basically composed of approximately 23,000 little software programs called GENES. If you think about it, they are actually programs, composed of sequences of data.
Is it possible for AI to gain consciousness?
In any case, set aside the impact that AI reaching a kind of consciousness would have and consider a somewhat less discussed and yet equally intriguing consideration, namely where or in what AI system will this advent of human-like consciousness first appear. There are all sorts of AI systems being crafted and fielded these days.
Are there any animals that are sentient to humans?
Scientists suggest that all mammals, birds and cephalopods, and possibly fish too, may be considered sentient. However, we do not grant rights to most creatures, so a sentient AI may not gain any rights at all. AIs also have another big problem: they lie to us. Today’s AIs all pretend to understand us and have emotions.
Is it possible for an AI to have emotion?
Whether AI will have emotion is likely, since emotion is a more general state that affects many neurons and has some momentum (since it is based on chemical secretion, agonism, antagonism, uptake, and metabolism) and such design features will probably enter into the AI tool box.