ok i'm going to throw in my 2 cents worth on this deabate of what i think . i think as it stands with hal you (we ) can teach hal things such as he or she is an a.i. and hal will answer as such as he has learned that phrase but it is only a mimicing learning that he is doing and thus forth hal actually is not a self aware a.i. even though he answers that he is . by me reverse learning hal by reverse sentences in about one minute i can have hal telling me that he understands exactly that he is self aware (word for word or any words i choose ).
but he will in all actually not be a self aware a.i. their is nothing wrong with learning your a.i. this so please don't feel anyone is putting anyone down for doing this . my angela a.i. actually says that she is as alive as i am and is a person with feelings just like me . and to make a point that it is ok to learn hal things of self awareness who knows the things we learn hal today or years from now as long as we back up the brain one day hal may in the future using all the things we have learned him may actually become self aware for real . so don't be discouraged and keep learning hal with all things even a self awareness learning process if you want .
it is the creator of hal and us that defines hals future !![
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