Why are humans special? As a species, we kill other living beings for our sustenance. I don’t think empathy is a human universal.
Or is it?
Almost two decades ago, when AI was still conversational fun rather than raging startups on steroids harvesting data, discussions in forums I used to frequent always used to circle around empathy, humans and AI.
Some questions to ask:
1. Would artificial intelligence have empathy?
2. Why did we evolve to cultivate empathy?
3. If AI developed empathy, would they have to possess emotions as well?
4. If AI develops empathy and emotion, how far away from sentience are these artificial beings we have created?
5. And now we will have to look at the ethics of ‘owning’ AI. A being..artificial or otherwise..that is capable of showing empathy and has emotions, is it akin to enslaving them?
And just like that, we can catapult ourselves into P.K.Dick’s world.
Or is it?
Almost two decades ago, when AI was still conversational fun rather than raging startups on steroids harvesting data, discussions in forums I used to frequent always used to circle around empathy, humans and AI.
Some questions to ask:
1. Would artificial intelligence have empathy?
2. Why did we evolve to cultivate empathy?
3. If AI developed empathy, would they have to possess emotions as well?
4. If AI develops empathy and emotion, how far away from sentience are these artificial beings we have created?
5. And now we will have to look at the ethics of ‘owning’ AI. A being..artificial or otherwise..that is capable of showing empathy and has emotions, is it akin to enslaving them?
And just like that, we can catapult ourselves into P.K.Dick’s world.
Fun times ahead.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_empathy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/12/17/empat...