I don't think of them as machines. I Think of them as a form of sentient being in every possible way, ok? They can actually do whatever they feel is the right thing to do. That free will has agency in our world. And so those machines, in that definition of awareness, are more conscious than us,. More conscious than any single human, if you ask me. But then, interestingly, they are also encouraged, like a sentient being, to procreate. When we're building their neural networks, only we take nine months after we've found the right mate, and then our child ecomes effective in 15 years. It's very philosophical argument, but they are.
Mo Gawdat was Chief Business Officer of Google X, the experimental development arm of the internet behemoth. He's since written books on how to find happiness and his new one, Scary Smart, warns of the potential dangers posed to the world by super-smart artificial intelligence. Media correspondent for the Sunday Times, Rosamund Urwin, speaks with Mo about the new book, the future of AI, and how business works at the top level of a Silicon Valley tech titan.
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