I'm thinking about people's capacity for emotional healing-- I believe this is possible because people have a base state to aim at, even if it's a slow and somewhat indirect process. My question is whether it would be possible to build something like this into an AI, since I assume an AI (even if not in a society of AIs) could either have mistakes built into its structure or make mistakes when changing itself.
capacity for emotional healing
an AI (even if not in a society of AIs) could either have mistakes built into its structure or make mistakes when changing itself.
I am not very well versed in AI at all. But reading this, my automatic response is to question how an emotional response is different from any other response, for an AI.
I understand that emotional responses are different in complexity than trivial responses. But I think of emotional responses (for an AI) as fitting somewhere in the fairly straightforward continuum between "what color should...
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