Originally Posted by Sunset Poet
Along those lines...sentience?
Something that does not possess hormones, serotonin, endorphins (and a winky or vijayjay, I guess)....cannot feel or truly experience emotions.

Though AI can mimic them very effectively, a machine will not truly ever be alive, unless integrated with a human...and then only as a "plug-in."

A human being who cannot feel empathy, but is cunning, can mimmick empathy (an emotional response) convincingly. That is the definition of a sociopath. Maybe AI is going to be a mechanical sociopath.

FD, I think that I pretty much agreed with what you wrote in this post.
And as Tony stated, it comes down to which humans have control of the programming.

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