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#787 Kennon Sheldon - Freely Determined; The New Psychology of the Self, and How to Live

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The Importance of a Self Concept in AI

The new AI chat GPT is maybe on the verge of passing the Turing test but I don't think that it's there yet. If we were to design an AI that had such a capacity to model itself in the background and to somehow care about itself model and how other people perceived it or if that could be allowed to evolve naturally. But this to me is a very scary idea because right now our computers are machines we control them but once they have selves we might not control them anymore. The singularity is called when the AI has become so smart that they decide they don't need us and they have so much power that maybe they even eliminate us.

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