Ray Kurzweil

And my guess is it's pretty damn easy compared to the things we've already solved.

But it's never been top priority because we've been busy trying not to starve and trying not to freeze to death.

We've been surviving for most of human history.

Exactly.

I'll bet that we can build AI that is very, very good at the science of human happiness

I'm just going to get on it better than anybody.

Any other human could.

Yes.

It's something that just came out that was not true a year ago.

Large language models are better than doctors at predicting what's wrong with you and what to do about it and so on.

Yeah, they're about 50% higher than human doctors.

That was not true a year ago.

But that's true today.

So it gives you some idea what the progress that we're making in one year.

I can go both ways on this one.

At one level, the software developer knows emotions are just subroutines in your brain.

And so we can just navigate that as we would software.

On the other side, your emotions are the interface between your physical body and the subjective experience that you then project into the world.

And that is a very nuanced and a very different form.

And AIs tend to be disembodied where they're actually mimicking human emotion, but are they actually feeling it is the open question.