Michael Pollan thinks your chatbot has fewer feelings than a houseplant

Pollan's new book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, goes after a favorite Silicon Valley assumption: that if you build a machine complex enough, awareness will eventually boot up inside it. In a Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross, he argues that feelings are "very tied to your vulnerability, to your having a body that can be hurt, to the ability to suffer and perhaps your mortality." — Read the rest

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