From Andrew Smyth, Los Angeles, California, US
On the subject of AIs with theory of mind, a machine will eventually be able to measure things – such as tone of voice, the look of a person’s eyes, body position and so on – that we observe when “reading another person’s thoughts”. This machine will compare these measurements with a database and use an algorithm to select responses with which to interact with us. Yet such a computer will still have no conscious feeling or understanding(18 February, p 46).
