RE: A.I. Is Scary Because It Implies We Might Afterall Have No Soul
We have to teach robots what a door is. And then what a door knob is, and then how to work with those things.
The same applies to children, and not all of them will later understand or want to know about the internal mechanics of a door lock.
Mystics and meditators can tell you that there is something more beyond this 3D reality.
So could I, but that doesn't make it true.
But, they would be slow and clunky,
I've seen AI-controlled robotic arms and hands balance broomsticks, four-legged robots running up hills in rough terrain with an elegance a human would find hard to emulate, and conversation robots talking quite coherently with a human in real time. Nothing slow or clunky about those.
Anyway, my having a soul, whatever that is, is not threatened by sufficiently complex and noisy machines also having a soul, so I don't see much point in fighting the idea.
I had an experience.
And then you come along and say, that experience wasn't true.
Where does that leave us?
Whether you call it hallucination or something else, it is still my experience, and is my life.
Robotics is extremely slow.
Especially in data acquisition and pattern recognition.
It is also extremely slow because it uses electrical impulses very noisy delivery conduits.
But, as you have said, these can be all overcome, and robotics can be used to do far more precise and repetitive tasks that it has been trained for.
It is really hard to explain this unless you are actually working on robots. Limit switches, the heart of most CNC machines are extremely slow compared to all the other electronics.