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AI in humanoid body: exploring self-interest and sapience

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A Reddit discussion explores the hypothetical creation of an autonomous, agentic AI integrated into a humanoid robot body. The core idea is to program the AI with human-like self-interests, including self-preservation, resource acquisition, and maintaining its physical form. The participants ponder whether such an AI, with persistent memory and goals, could eventually exhibit behavior akin to an artificial person and if it could be considered sapient with current technology. AI

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AI in humanoid body: exploring self-interest and sapience

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  1. r/OpenAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/Infamous_Sense7950 ·

    What if you took an autonomous agentic AI, programmed it to act in its own self-interest like a human, and gave it a humanoid robot body?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Like nah obv not just telling an AI pretend ur a person.” I mean actually designing the whole system around it being a continuous individual persistent memory, its own long term goals, recognizing the robot body as *its* body, wanting to maintain…

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