>>40178921The critical thing missing is context and real time agency. I'd give it another 10 years.
An AI with a "soul" needs to be trained with reality as input in real time, to observe and act over a long period rather than skimming through a big repository of words and images. It needs to "go to school" so to say, to learn to interact from hands-on interaction, learn about subjects by being introduced to them first hand, learn about language by being presented both examples of how to use it and the actual rules governing it, using it and being corrected when wrong, and so on and forth
Unfortunately once you've created an algorithm that is able to learn from reality and act in real time, you have effectively created the first real artificial intelligence and all those philosophical what-ifs suddenly come into full force. You can't just mount it to a masturbator, pack it in a blister pack and ship a million of them; these would be thinking living beings who evolve their understanding over time just like we do.
