"If you have a system that is as intelligent as a human and really is convincing in its emotional responses and can make us laugh and cry, then my belief is, it is conscious. And it'll get mad at us if we don't believe it's conscious. [E]motion is not some sort of sideshow; there's intelligence and then there's emotion. Emotion is all these high-level concepts. It's the most sophisticated thing we do. Being funny, being sexy, being loving, these are very complicated and intelligent behaviors. [Y]ou probably think those high-level pattern recognizers are much more complicated than the low-level ones. They're actually exactly the same. We are learning how these modules work, how they wire themselves. The technique that we have evolved in AI is mathematically equivalent to what the brain is doing." - Adriano