Letter: Is there any need for AI that thinks like us?

From Martin van Raay, Culemborg, The Netherlands

Your article asks: are chatbots really able to think like people? I think not. Not as long as they don’t feel fear, pride or anger. What we would need for that aren’t electronic computers, but chemical ones(1 April, p 10).

Juxtaposed to this was an article reporting that the global population could reach 8.6 billion people in 2050 (1 April, p 11) – each one of them a chemical computer, each one of them a human intelligence.

So my counter question would be: do we really need artificial intelligence that is able to think like a human being?