RE: If a Machine Says It Feels, Does That Mean It Does? A Reflection on AI 'Sentience'
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It's about a foundation of believe - does a soul exist? Is our conscience materialistic, or metaphysical? If it's materialistic, yes, one day we can create human machines when science discovers the last little. Real humans, with everything a conscience. But if everything is materialistic, then there is no such thing as freedom, as everything is under the laws of (quantum-)physics. Everything would be predictable, and nothing left to chance and coincidence - if there's only enough computing power.
Machines are machines. Animals are animals. And humans are getting lonelier, more isolated, so they choose to treat both like humans, just to not feel as lonely and isolated. It was human con artists and scammer before, now it's machines mimicking. Cheaper. More efficient. And those who want to believe and fall for it always will.
The machine will not feel bad about it. It's a tool. It can emulate feeling bad, drawing conclusions out of trillions of similar situations in it's data points, but it won't feel. Maybe machines can be programmed to simulate that they believe to be human, but that's about it.
At least that's what I believe.
Everything will become a simulation, and probably has already. The horror of efficiency. Perhaps in the copying, the machines will become better at being human than us, who are losing what it is to be human because we are giving it to the machines. Ah, what loops we loop!
They probably can be. Machines can be fed with rules and laws and should have to comply to them. The emotional factor is out, and while the emotions also do a lot of good, they cause a lot of bad, too.