It's amazing what they are doing with AI and I agree that it will help also in the fields of neurology and psychology (it's already doing it in some ways). <br><br>One problem I see though is that the scientists and engineers working on AI always have this materialistic framework which presupposes that consciousness is emergent from the physics of the brain and is simply a complex Turing machine or calculator. <br>They also confuse the concepts of intelligence and consciousness and think they are the same.<br>Based on these assumptions they believe that machine learning systems can one day become sentient and conscious, just by increasing their complexity. <br><br>This materialistic framework leads to the absurdity of that engineer claiming that Google AI is sentient, because he can't distinguish between a statistical predictive model and a conscious being, and I'm afraid this will expand to the whole society, where we'll start to say that these AI robots are conscious simply because their behaviour is indistinguishable from humans'.<br><br>I really hope AI software engineers will start to look more into the philosophy of the mind, the hard problem of consciousness and non duality ideas, because this is a dangerous trajectory they're leading us into.