> This concept will sell millions of AI dogs. So what happens to the real dogs?

People will finally stop breeding and exploiting them for money and egoistical desire to be "loved".

Sure, you can make a choice to ignore scientific evidence and live in an illusion that you're in full control with your consciousness and emotions. I'm sorry, I was mistaken thinking that we could have serious discussion here. My bad.

We are not talking about psychology. Psychology studies waves, not the ocean.

>Well emotions is both very valuable and detrimental to human decision making.

Except that they aren't. Your eyes "see" a lion, send signals to your brain. It sends signals to your adrenal glands, they produce adrenaline - you run. Emotions and even your conscious don't participate in the process. AFAIK, there's no scientific proof that we need emotions to function.

One curious experiment on the decision making: https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2008.751

For all we know, our conscious is simply making up good stories for us: https://www.nature.com/articles/483260a

People often ask and talk about this, but the real question is: does an AI need emotions? What's their function? If there's none, then why would it need them?

This has nothing to do with the futurology. Is the moderation on this sub is always so lenient? I'm a new subscriber.

Poor taste.