Re: 25 years in IT has made me increasingly cynical about AI ...
But do we even want them to think? Or do we really want them to do the kind of things we do, but in a different way? I mean, you don't want your self driving car to be distracted by the cute little postal delivery bot its just spied on the pavement.
And then there's the ethic of having things that might be conscious. Machines are machines. But sentient computers can be exploited.