To respond to the OP:
For an AI to recognise an emotional bond with a parent could only be as a result of there being an advantage in there being a bond in the first place. Such bonds in humans developed as a survival trait (and hence was brought about by evolution). Those humans that bonded with a parent and maintained close physical contact with a social group had an overall better chance of survival.
Our brains have thus evolved so that the behaviour has indeed been 'hard-coded'. However, I would consider the task of skipping evolution (with an AI) and hard-coding such traits by editing by hand would be as meaningless and impossibly difficult as trying to do the same with a real brain.
Such a complex system as the brain (or an AI) has only 2 ways of learning. The hard way; responding to external stimuli. The harder way; going through tens of thousands of generations in a reasonably stable environment in order to have a million million chance mutations giving rise to the possibility of evolutionary development.
I would argue that you cannot teach a person (by making them respond to external stimuli) to bond with a parent (if such trait did not already exist).
'Coding' an AI will remain in the arena of sci-fi until the end of all time. The only way to develop a true intelligence would be to have a complex system responding to rules that closely relate to those found in the real world. Whilst our computing power these days is very powerful, I would imagine that a complex enough system could only arise if we had several orders of magnitude more primary storage (RAM) coupled with a great deal of CPU power, or purpose-built fairly simple neuron emulating processors.
Making a single AI 'grow up' is probably a useless idea. You would need a community of such systems in order for them to develop. Intelligence is shown to be linked with compex social groups (primates, dolphins).
Within our lifetimes? Possibly, in some very limited way (simulating an ant colony perhaps). True AI I think is a very long way off, assuming we overcome the lack of oil to power our civilisation through the next 25 years and then again through the next 25 centuries etc.
For an AI to recognise an emotional bond with a parent could only be as a result of there being an advantage in there being a bond in the first place. Such bonds in humans developed as a survival trait (and hence was brought about by evolution). Those humans that bonded with a parent and maintained close physical contact with a social group had an overall better chance of survival.
Our brains have thus evolved so that the behaviour has indeed been 'hard-coded'. However, I would consider the task of skipping evolution (with an AI) and hard-coding such traits by editing by hand would be as meaningless and impossibly difficult as trying to do the same with a real brain.
Such a complex system as the brain (or an AI) has only 2 ways of learning. The hard way; responding to external stimuli. The harder way; going through tens of thousands of generations in a reasonably stable environment in order to have a million million chance mutations giving rise to the possibility of evolutionary development.
I would argue that you cannot teach a person (by making them respond to external stimuli) to bond with a parent (if such trait did not already exist).
'Coding' an AI will remain in the arena of sci-fi until the end of all time. The only way to develop a true intelligence would be to have a complex system responding to rules that closely relate to those found in the real world. Whilst our computing power these days is very powerful, I would imagine that a complex enough system could only arise if we had several orders of magnitude more primary storage (RAM) coupled with a great deal of CPU power, or purpose-built fairly simple neuron emulating processors.
Making a single AI 'grow up' is probably a useless idea. You would need a community of such systems in order for them to develop. Intelligence is shown to be linked with compex social groups (primates, dolphins).
Within our lifetimes? Possibly, in some very limited way (simulating an ant colony perhaps). True AI I think is a very long way off, assuming we overcome the lack of oil to power our civilisation through the next 25 years and then again through the next 25 centuries etc.