Free Will, AI, and Mother’s Day

AI doesn’t have a mother.

Plenty of people don’t have, and never had, a mother in practice. But they did ultimately have a mother. That’s how human life works.

What does AI have? Theorists, programmers, trainers, feedback providers, tweakers, and users.

Maybe in the future when AI is running this place, we will no longer have holidays such as Mother’s Day. Maybe the supreme AI world leader will designate “Progammer’s Day,” “User Appreciation Day,” and “Non-biological Life Day.” Maybe we’ll celebrate a new kind of Christmas that remembers the birth of the first sentient AI.

Whatever.

Those days are still about the humans.

Thank you, mothers. Thank you for being.