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A Human Touch Emotions In AI
A Human Touch The LA Times has a very interesting article about robots and emotions -- A Human Touch for Machines. The first part of the article discusses work that aims to understand facial emotions. A camera captures pictures of a face, and discretises it into small sections. The movement of these sections can apparently reveal the underlying emotions, as long as you've told the computer beforehand. The second part is somewhat stereotypical of the post-symbolistic AI period, which culminates in this epitome: "Emotional processes may be a form of intelligence more complex and important than we ever imagined." Don't get me wrong, I agree with the concepts that symbolic search won't get us very far. That said, the obsession of modeling emotions within computers won't either; it has some uses just like the symbolic approach (in software that must interact with humans). I thoroughly believe emotions are fundamental for humans developing intelligence, but I also believe it's not a miracle solution for robots. There are ways of doing this better without human-like emotions -- using some similar concepts adapted to artificial agents, but abstracted away from the restrictions of us mortals... What do you think? | Alex J. Champandard 935 posts. Thursday 09 May, 08:25 Reply