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Big Technology Podcast · 2026-07-15 · 62 min · 9,887 words

AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware

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the pain signals. Are just informing the robot about what should be avoided. Pain is just an invention of nature and biological beings. Oh evolution uh which invented this There's pain.

Sensor thing. On Animals. Such that they have an incentive to learn to avoid the pain. And we have done that for many many decades in our learning machine.

the chemicals that are used in brains to encode certain states of fear or of um of love and whatever, uh they are different from what we are using in our artificial brains. But The principles Must be the same. And then it's self-aware. itself aware. In the sense that uh

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