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Words aren’t always enough for what you want to say           Will AI come to feel the same way?

When you say something, you may feel awkward

     Have you ever felt awkward when you say something? Or something of a word or sentence does not properly express what you think or feel? I am experiencing such feelings now.
     I have lost my beloved friend recently. She was not just any dog, though you may think just a dog. Even now when almost two months have passed, I sometimes can’t stop shedding tears for her. I can’t express this sorrow well enough with any words. I can’t say how much I miss her by any means.
     However, while she was getting weaker and weaker since January, I felt terrible to see her suffering. As for it is true, I should be relieved because her suffering ended. I see that she would never feel pain now. Having said that, I still wish she could be here.

Various gaps sometimes beat you up

     You may be stunned to see gaps between you and somebody else, when they misunderstand what you say, when you misinterpret what they say, or when you realize they interpret the same word or sentence in a totally different way from you.
     You may feel frustrated even with gaps inside you; between your words and thoughts or feelings. It’s like that you go down to the bottom inside of you, wanting to hold something certain, but you no sooner grab one thing and nevertheless it falls through between your fingers.
     As long as you are a human being, you always have to struggle with the words, thoughts and feelings. They occasionally beat you up and you often betray them.
     I wish I could live a calm and peaceful life without such struggles with words, but I can’t help it.

If AI can do anything without such gaps and frustration, human beings should leave all crucial decision-makings to AI

     The auto-learning AI and its rapid development has recently been a big topic everywhere. Various companies are building up an AI system cooperating with each other and trying to make use it for other purposes. AI learns everything from the existing sources of texts, images, datas, statistics, and so on. It is said that AI will do most of the jobs that people do now. Even artistic things such as writing stories, music and song lyrics, painting pictures, making animations. AI will do anything in the same ways we do.
     Here are my questions; does AI feel emotions? Does it feel struggle and frustrated with the gaps between words and thoughts like human beings? Will it come to understand our irrational and inconsistent feelings some day? If the answer to those questions is no, I think that you should limit to a practical field such as global economy, politics, public health, environmental issues, and so on, when you leave a crucial decision making to AI. The reason is that humans tend to make wrong decisions when they are lost in the complexities of words, thoughts, feelings, and so on.
     The artistic and creative production should be left in humans’ hands. Even when they are lost in struggle with complexities, they will find hope. That’s art and creativity.



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