Ali Eslami

I think it's super valid.

I agree that the AI systems that we have today are not capable of kind of creating those emotional connections.

That I say with a kind of commercial or products or pragmatic lens.

So right now we have AI artifacts, literally like Gemini 3 or Mid Journey or whatever.

And I agree that these things are not plugged in

to the real world and are not smart enough to make that emotional connection.

But if I put on my scientist hat, I don't see any fundamental blocker to a future system understanding the complexities of human emotion and the zeitgeist, as an earlier speaker mentioned,

in order to make those emotional moments happen.

I think that can be done.

I don't see any reason why it's different to solving a mathematical problem or writing a piece of poetry that mimics a certain style or reading a book and kind of getting the gist of that book.

I think it's doable.

On this topic, there's a fantastic article that I always recommend.

It's written by a guy, Aaron Hertzman, who works at Adobe.

And it's an article called, Can Computers Create Art?

And

He concludes that ultimately the point of art is social.

It's like two entities kind of communicating something within each other.

And we just haven't set up computers to do social acts yet.

They're kind of doing interesting visual acts, but they're not social acts.

If they get embedded in society to the extent that they're doing that, I think at that point we will start feeling like they're doing kind of emotional work.