• claim
  • AI feels emotions
    • "in my work I describe everything with equations
    • fear is a very simple equation
      • fear is a a moment in the future
        • that is less safe than this moment
    • that's the logic of fear
    • Even though it appears very irrational,
      • machines are capable of making that logic
      • They're capable of saying
        • if a tidal wave is approaching a data center
        • the machine will say
          • that will wipe out my code,
            • not today's machines
            • but very very soon and
        • we feel fear and
        • puffer fish feels fear
        • we react differently
          • a puffer fish will puff and
          • we will go for fight or flight
        • the machine might decide to replicate its data to another data center
        • different reactions different ways of feeling the emotion
        • but nonetheless they're all motivated by fear
        • I would dare say that AI will feel more emotions than we will ever do
          • if you just take a simple extrapolation,
            • we feel more emotions than a puffer fish
            • because we have the cognitive ability to understand he future
            • so we can have optimism and pessimism,
              • emotions puffer fish would never imagine
            • similarly if we follow that path of artificial intelligence
            • it is bound to become more intelligent than humans very soon
            • then then with that wider intellectual horsepower
            • they probably are going to be pondering concepts we never understood good and
            • hence if you follow the same trajectory
            • they might actually end up having more emotions than we will ever feel

HAL, a supposedly emotion feigning ultra-intelligent A.I., has just asked Dave if he could ask him a "personal question?" This should raise a concern in Dave, but it doesn't. Earlier in the film, during the BBC interview, the interviewer asked the Astronauts if HAL had emotions or if he was just faking it, their reply was that he was definitely programmed to feign emotions, however the fact whether if he actually had emotions or not remains a mystery. In this scene HAL acknowledges the existence of emotions by asking if he can ask a question that might incite a negative emotional response, a "personal question." This revelation should have frightened Dave, because it shows that HAL is more than a computer and is capable of more than just controlling the ship and maintaining optimal performance, HAL is capable of reading emotions and perhaps even capable of being afflicted by them.