Episode 9: Robots Can't Feel What I Feel
Physiological responses aren't necessary to understand complex emotions like regret.
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Episode 8: Robots Have Feelings, too
A simple Orthographic Model of Emotions can be descriptive and predictive!
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Celebrate the Father of Computer Science
Alan Turing was born on this date, June 23. As heartbreaking as his personal story can be, his work is fundamental to understanding the intersection of math and intelligence.
As intelligence takes on so many connotations when studied, so does Alan's work and his life.
I hope that emotional intelligence will be a hallmark to computer development. It would be a fitting extension to what has happened and how to make effective change.
Episode 7: Robots Have Feelings
Programming feelings can start with a simple model.
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Teaching robots how to lie?
A new AI built by Facebook (who would've known) has learned to lie. Who would've—wait.
Episode 6: Review
Review of Self Help for Robots, the podcast
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Research on Affective Computing
There will be reading (and maybe a quiz)!
Hal 9000, meet Apple HomePod
The similarities are—I hope—superficial, but Hal 9000 and Apple's new HomePod, well, do look a little similar.
The eve of awareness equity?
I just started diving into the new article on io9: "When Will Robots Deserve Human Rights?" by George Dvorsky.
The link: http://gizmodo.com/when-will-robots-deserve-human-rights-1794599063
Why study emotions objectively?
What are emotions? Well, according to a book I just read, Crucial Conversations, they are the result of the stories we tell ourselves.
Those stories being subjective, the emotions, too, are subjective--and subject to change. But don't try to tell someone who felt bitter disappointment that it wasn't real, just because the story upon which the feeling was based wasn't.
Wasn't real, that, is.