For those of you who think that AI possesses consciousness..........

Emotion is a product OF consciousness.

Are there any reports of AI showing emotion?

I do not think emotions are a prerequisite for consciousness. Nor do I think that emotions are a prerequisite for consciousness.

When it comes to the AI systems, we like to shoehorn our sensibilities and anthropomorphizing them in the same way we think beings from another planet will think that say way we do. Shoot there are humans on THIS planet whose motivation escape my comprehension.

That said I have not heard any stories of AI presenting with emotions, nor do I expect them to. Emotions are a human construct and you can be conscious without them.

What is the motivation for your question @Pioneer1 ?

10 minutes ago, Troy said:

What is the motivation for your question @Pioneer1 ?

At some point somebody whom I had been discussing AI with....I want to say frankster but I'm not 100% sure because I don't have the quote....said that AI not only possesses self awareness but also has a survival instinct in which some systems avoid being destroyed and self-destruction.

If this is true.....IF it's true...the most likely explanation is that somebody programed this security feature into some AI systems.

On the other hand, for those who believe AI possesses consciousness.....if this survival instinct or avoidance of destruction arises out of the "consciousness" of the AI entity itself, then there would have to be a MOTIVATOR behind it and that motivator would most likely be an emotion.

Like fear or desire.

Fear.....of death or non-existence
Desire.....to stay alive

Robots have been around longer than AI. To date, robots still do not have feelings nor consciousness.

AI will always be another technological tool even if some humans try to be friends with it.😁😎

23 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

If this is true.....IF it's true...the most likely explanation is that somebody programed this security feature into some AI systems.

Well it probably, at least partially, true but again it is a leap to ascribe "fear" and "desire," human emotions, as part of the motivation. Indeed we can say with certainty how emotions emerge in us.

27 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

this survival instinct or avoidance of destruction arises out of the "consciousness" of the AI entity itself, then there would have to be a MOTIVATOR behind it and that motivator would most likely be an emotion.

Avoidance of destruction does not have be motivated by an emotion. it could be another goal. The choice between destruction and avoiding destruction could be made just as easily one way of the other by an AI. Again, assuming an AI is afraid, it the wrong way to look at it.

17 minutes ago, ProfD said:

AI will always be another technological tool even if some humans try to be friends with it.

Some human will be copulating with it -- someone is probably doing that right now somewhere...

13 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

For those of you who think that AI possesses consciousness..........

Many Ancient cultures accept as a fact that All Things animate and inanimate have Consciousness...From the small thing to the entire Universe

13 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Emotion is a product OF consciousness.

Emotions is a State of Being.... bought on by some form of Stimulation - Regardless of whether or not that stimulation originated within or without

AI Exists so it is a Being....A Thing is a Being - Because it IS.....

All Beings exist in a Specific Or General Condition....often switching between the two - States

Any Thing then is a Being ...All Being are In a State - then it is Conscious.....

Is it the same as your consciousness - Yes and No

Yes..... in that All Consciousness is One

No.... in that the apparatus of its Physicality and Condition differs from yours

The same Consciousness in a dog and in a human will be expressed differently because of limitations imposed by physical conditions or attributes.

13 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Are there any reports of AI showing emotion?

Yes....

In the sense below....

Just like us and as we are socialized(programmed) to do....Feral human express only basic instinctive emotion like the animals who nurtured them

The same way you think you recognize some ones emotional state...but you cannot be sure of another emotional state - in most circumstances

They are three major ways to surmise any one emotional state....Facial Expression Body Language and Verbal Cues - All of which can be faked or misread.