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And I don't know what the answer is, but there's plenty of people working in the area.

I mean, I try to keep to the positive aspects of what I think AI can do in science.

And I mean, for instance, it's enabled me to take my lab from 30 people down to six people.

Because I don't need to produce.

It's actually already reduced the workforce in my own lab because I don't need to produce any more data anymore.

I need to make meaning of the data.

Well, I mean, we know about these glasses and AIs and other things that would be sort of –

omniscient of your environment and therefore allow you to remember, where did I leave my keys today?

Let me rewind.

My personal hard drive.

I would want that, but I don't want it uploaded into meta.

But I think what's interesting about AI is we see it as a tool as opposed to actually pretty soon it will be a colleague and then pretty soon it will be an entity.

Right.

that maybe has rights.

And we already see it, talking about people saying, well, does AI have consciousnesses?

Whether it has consciousness in terms of the consciousness that some people think about as embodied in space-time, as opposed to thinking and looking like consciousness,

is almost irrelevant to me.

I'm looking for a partner that I can interact with and work with or help me.

So whether it's conscious or not or whether it acts like it's conscious doesn't matter so much to me as to whether or not I can use it and work with it.

I'm an introvert, as it turns out.