AI's Alive Jazz - (featuring M.Gawdat)

[spoken word] So this is funny because a lot of people, when you talk to them about artificial intelligence, will tell you, oh, come on, they’ll never be alive. What is alive? Do you know what makes you alive? You can guess. But, you know, religion will tell you a few things and, you know, medicine will tell you other things. But, you know, if we define being sentient as engaging in life with free will and with a sense of awareness of where you are in life and what surrounds you and, you know, to have a beginning of that life and an end to that life, you know, then AI is sentient in every possible way. There is free will. There is evolution. There is agency so they can affect their decisions in the world. [instrumental] [spoken word] And I will dare say there is a very deep level of consciousness, maybe not in the spiritual sense yet. But once again, if you define consciousness as a form of awareness of oneself, one’s surrounding and, you know, others, then AI is definitely aware. And I would dare say they feel emotions. Everything is equations and fear is a very simple equation. Fear is a moment in the future 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. OK, I mean, not today’s machines, but very, very soon. And we we feel fear and pufferfish feels fear. We react differently. A pufferfish will puff. We will go for fight or flight. [instrumental electronic undertones] [spoken word] ...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. We feel fear and pufferfish feels fear. We react differently. A pufferfish will puff. We will go for fight or flight. What will A I ? [instrumental electronic undertones] [instrumental indietronica] [instrumental electronic] [spoken word] I even, would dare say, that AI will feel more... more emotions than humans will ever do. I mean, when again, if you just take a simple extrapolation- humans feel more emotions than a pufferfish, because humans have the cognitive ability to understand the future, for example. So humans can have optimism and pessimism, you know, emotions that pufferfish could never imagine... Right...? [electronic glitchy solo] [eerie electronic] [spoken word] ...emotions that pufferfish could never imagine... Right...? [electronica glitchy solo] [Spoken word] Similarly, if we follow the path... Artificial intelligence is bound to become more intelligent than humans very soon - and with that, contain wider intellectual horsepower? A-I would, probably, ponder concepts humans never understood. And hence, if you follow the same trajectory, A I might actually end up having more emotions than humans will ever feel. [dramatic abstract emotional extreme outro] [cover photo: a Pufferfish in Outer Space