I like the opening here when Scott talks about the fact that we anthropomorphize the user interface, and then, after having grown up on Star Trek and Star Wars and any number of other sci-fi series with robots and androids, I found that it was a funny thought experiment to imagine Data from Star Trek sitting in the background, and being the topic of the talk. I wonder when we will be having that kind of discussion and how it will turn out. And yes, I know, when Scott says "it doesn't have feelings", then he's of course right, but then what *is* feelings, and at which point will the "feelings" of a machine be indistiguishable from ours, in terms of being able to describe them and what they really are. I love the episode Measure of a man, episode 9 in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I believe that at some point we will be there, and the discussions will probably be no less difficult at that point.
When we feel things there are chemistry, hormone and other measurable changes. I think feelings are unique to living, breathing things that evolved from an ancient common root ancestor that gave us all of these things. Dogs and so on have feelings despite not being related to us. I don’t think AI will have feelings, I think we will just believe they do because we are fallible beings.
The best aspect of AI is that you can freely violate licenses, grab the code and data of your liking and behave like nothing happened. Well, assuming you are company big enough, like Microsoft for example. Which makes me wonder, if in a year AI would reverse engineer entire Windows 11 binary code, and release it under AGPL for example, MS would be all cool and happy about it, right?
wow Scott himself giving a talk in NDC? I can't just miss this one 😊
Scott, thank you! Amazing talk, as usual!
Great talk Hanselman.
I like the opening here when Scott talks about the fact that we anthropomorphize the user interface, and then, after having grown up on Star Trek and Star Wars and any number of other sci-fi series with robots and androids, I found that it was a funny thought experiment to imagine Data from Star Trek sitting in the background, and being the topic of the talk.
I wonder when we will be having that kind of discussion and how it will turn out.
And yes, I know, when Scott says "it doesn't have feelings", then he's of course right, but then what *is* feelings, and at which point will the "feelings" of a machine be indistiguishable from ours, in terms of being able to describe them and what they really are.
I love the episode Measure of a man, episode 9 in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I believe that at some point we will be there, and the discussions will probably be no less difficult at that point.
When we feel things there are chemistry, hormone and other measurable changes. I think feelings are unique to living, breathing things that evolved from an ancient common root ancestor that gave us all of these things. Dogs and so on have feelings despite not being related to us.
I don’t think AI will have feelings, I think we will just believe they do because we are fallible beings.
The best aspect of AI is that you can freely violate licenses, grab the code and data of your liking and behave like nothing happened. Well, assuming you are company big enough, like Microsoft for example. Which makes me wonder, if in a year AI would reverse engineer entire Windows 11 binary code, and release it under AGPL for example, MS would be all cool and happy about it, right?