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Agreed. Especially when you consider that even fictional general AIs centuries more advanced than we are capable of making, such as Data or Isaac, aren't clearly shown to actually have what we call a soul, even if they're really good at emulating people.
If "what we call a soul" means consciousness, then I doubt there's a way to prove that anything else than your own self can be shown to actually have a soul. Not even what we call "other people".
You being aware of your own consciousness doesn't mean every human necessarily is in the same, right? ..and since we lack of a way to prove consciousness then we can't assume other people are any more conscious than an AI could be.
I agree with this, it's impossible to prove that other people are the same as you. Still, I have this feeling about AI atm. Maybe I just haven't encountered one ^^
The problem is we probe consciousness trough language, and we created machines capable of damm good language. We tend to think language as a byproduct of conscience. If I feel like I'm a being separated from the world, I can use language to order that world. As AI Focus a lot on NLP we have machines capable of using language and describing the world as conscientious beings, but we have no way to tell the difference of a emulated conscience and a real one.