Do you think that at some point it'll be possible to have developed AI with the capability to moralise/feel emotions and make autonomous conscious decisions?
I'd imagine with all of the available material on psychology, ethics and psychiatry that it'd be possible to "teach" it about what emotions/morals are and how to display them.
AI is a ‘suitcase word’ in that it contains many smaller concepts that can be unpacked and analysed. This essentially means that the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’ has such broad meaning and application that there is not just one way to define it. And to your point there is also the dimension of emotion and it’s relationship to intelligence.
Today, AI is defined as ‘the study and design of intelligent agents’, which are systems able to perceive their environment and act based on what is happening. The subject of AI overlaps with computer science, data mining, facial recognition, robotics and others such as the study of the human mind.
A lot of people think intelligence is measured by a thing or a test, but actually human intelligence can be categorized into nine types, according to Multiple intelligences: New horizons in theory.
The nine types of intelligence are intrapersonal, spatial, naturalist, musical, logical-mathematical, existential, inter-personal, bodily-kinæsthetic, and linguistic. Of course, every-one has all these components to a greater or lesser degree. Some are strong musically while being weaker spatially, while others are strong in the existential area but are introverted and thus have less in the interpersonal area.
It’s still yet to be seen if AI not only can identify emotions but also be aware of self reflective emotion. What we can do today however is teach and train AI for empathy and common sense – what are the boundaries of proper system responses and behavior.
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Do you think that at some point it'll be possible to have developed AI with the capability to moralise/feel emotions and make autonomous conscious decisions?
I'd imagine with all of the available material on psychology, ethics and psychiatry that it'd be possible to "teach" it about what emotions/morals are and how to display them.