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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Published in:Futurist Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 12 - 13
Main Author: Epstein, Jeffrey H.
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Published: World Future Society April 1998
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