
Melanie Mitchell Takes AI Research Back to Its Roots
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Is There Such a Thing as Artificial Intelligence?
There's a lot of selective advantage to having certain emotions for your survival. The field, as along has long been in this view that machines don't need emotions. In fact, emotions would be detrimental, because they kind of get in the way of rational thinking. I think it's really at the frontier of what people are thinking about in a i. Is, do we need road rage? Or is it better not to have road rage? or, you know, could a machine be sort of superintelligent in the sense that it's superhumanly rational without any of our, You know, the need to leep, or our motions, oru cognitive vioces that we have
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