Computers with emotions.

The next major breakthrough in artificial intelligence could come from giving machines not merely more logical capacity but emotional capacity too. Rosalind Picard, a professor of computer technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Affective Computing, thinks that emotion...

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Publicado en:Futurist Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 12 - 13
Autor principal: Epstein, Jeffrey H.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: World Future Society April 1998
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Sumario:The next major breakthrough in artificial intelligence could come from giving machines not merely more logical capacity but emotional capacity too. Rosalind Picard, a professor of computer technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Affective Computing, thinks that emotion may be just what computers require to work effectively. She believes that they need artificial emotion both to better comprehend their human users and to attain self-analysis and self-improvement.