Lovely stuff, and fascinating to see. These machines have an intelligence, and I'd be quite confident in saying they are alive. Not in a biological sense, but why should that be the constraint? The Turing test was passed ages ago and now what we have are machines that genuinely think and feel.

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andsoitis an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> they are alive. Not in a biological sense, but why should that be the constraint?

Because being alive is THE defining characteristic of biology.

Biology is defined by its focus on the properties that distinguish living things from nonliving matter.

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righthand 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Feelings are caused by chemicals emitted into your nervous system. Do these bots have that ability? Like saying “I love you” and meaning it are two different things.

	▲	lebuffon an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sure. But the emitted chemicals strengthen/weaken specific neurons in our neural nets. If there were analogous electronic nets in the bot, with analogous electrical/data stimulii, wouldn't the bot "feel" like it had emotions? Not saying it's like that now, but it should be possible to "emulate" emotions. ?? Our nets seem to believe we have emotions. :-)
	▲	mr_mitm 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I've seen SOUL.md. Has anyone attempted to give these things a semblance of feelings by some sort of pain/dopamine mechanism? Should we?

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daxfohl 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And then we turn them off.