Schmidhuber: No Objective Distinction Exists Between Biological and Artificial Emotions
Jürgen Schmidhuber · AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware · Jul 15, 2026 · at 33:54
AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber explains to Alex Kantrowicz why both biological and artificial emotions arise from identical reward-maximization principles.
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“There's no way of objectively seeing the difference between the emotions of a Of reward maximizing biological brain and the emotions of a reward maximizing artificial brain.”
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