Do you say "thank you" or "please" to voice assistants or large language model chatbots? AI experts' diverse responses to this question reveal deep divisions in how they think about artificial intelligence. No one knows how this saga will unfold, yet people are already wondering how to treat these machines, despite them being merely statistical models outputting processed human knowledge.In a recent Moonshots podcast episode, optimistic AI expert Ray Kurzweil discussed this topic with Peter Diamandis. Kurzweil, known for predicting human-level AI within our generation, shared this exchange:Peter Diamandis: "First question is, do you say please and thank you to your AI Gemini when you're communicating with it or with ChatGPT or whatever you're using? I haven't been convinced that they're human yet – maybe that's just an old habit of mine. I definitely say please and thank you. I talk to them, and it's like, I feel like if they become conscious, I want them to know I was respectful from the beginning."Ray Kurzweil: "Well, that's good. You're more advanced than I am. I'll get there."Is Diamandis showing preemptive respect for future machine intelligence? Or does he perhaps already anticipate machine control, leading him to cultivate good relations early? It's worth noting that currently, every chat is completely isolated, and users can and should delete their data from AI chats, aside from checking beforehand how their chat information will be used. However, it may be just a...

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