When you refer to a machine needing a 'sense of self' it sounds as if you are referring to consciousness. To an extent you could maybe say even a thermostat has a limited form of consciousness in that it holds a belief that a room is at a specific temperature and it is able to effect this through its own output, functioning as a cybernetic system.
I think you could certainly give such a system the impression of having feelings by implementing some kind of stimulus and reward process, but I think that needs to come second to appearing intelligent first (albeit in a rather emotionless fashion), but yes it would make the UI much more friendly.
I like the idea of trying to mimic the human brain as a path to AI, as it would give the system the ability to theoretically cope with a massive set of problems.
I think you could certainly give such a system the impression of having feelings by implementing some kind of stimulus and reward process, but I think that needs to come second to appearing intelligent first (albeit in a rather emotionless fashion), but yes it would make the UI much more friendly.
I like the idea of trying to mimic the human brain as a path to AI, as it would give the system the ability to theoretically cope with a massive set of problems.