Artificial emotions again
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A couple of days ago, Dilbert highlighted a problem with robot emotions, beyond the issue that Zach Wienersmith raised a few weeks ago:
The external evidence of "cognition" is sometimes obscure and ambiguous, but the Turing Test approach is especially problematic in evaluating "emotion".
Yesterday's strip:
And today's:
Update — and the next one:
And another:
In yet another example of hype imitating art imitating life — or maybe I should say hype imitating art imitating technology imitating life — UBS has an advertorial on the topic:
bks said,
June 23, 2016 @ 8:45 am
The UBS advertorial shows how little progress has been made in the fifty years since Joseph Weizenbaum wrote Eliza.
Rod Johnson said,
June 23, 2016 @ 8:49 am
Good to see Simon getting some love. Sorry I missed his birthday.