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Future of Emotions in Artificial Intelligence

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This research explores the future of emotions in AI, their role in intelligence, issues in realizing emotions in AI and more. It talks about the human desire to create something in his own image, something that can think, act and feel like him. It also discusses the role of emotions in intelligence and why we care about emotions in AI. The research concludes with the future of AI and its gradual inclusion in our society and life.

Future of Emotions in Artificial Intelligence

   Added on 2019-09-30

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Research StatementDoes artificial intelligence feel emotions, and where are we heading to?IntroductionEmotions are what makes us human. And when we attempt to give machines the power to think like us, is it any wonder we would also like them to feel like us. After all, without emotions, a man is also an automaton. Have we been able to create an automaton that feels like a human does? Will we be able to?In this research, I will explore human emotions and intelligence, talk about our desire for machines to feel emotions and react, issues standing in the way of progress and finally extrapolate the future of emotions in AI. Also, for this research I will only talk about Weak AI which concerns itself with solving a well-defined narrow set of problems e.g. scheduling a user's goals automatically in available time slots in Google Calendar app (available on Web, Android and iOS). Strong AI or general AI is out of scope for this discussion.An Ancient Wish to Forge The GodsAI began in ancient times with the human desire to create something in his own image, something that can think, act and feel like him. This desire has been finding outlet since that time in the myths, legends, stories, speculations, arts and literature, technology of the times. (McCorduck, 2004).For example, mechanical men and artificial beings appear in Greek myths, such as the golden robots of Hephaestus to serve their masters intelligently and Pygmalion's Galatea where a marble sculpture is made alive by a Goddess. In the Middle Ages, there were rumors of secret mystical or alchemical means of placing mind into matter. By the 19th century, ideas about artificial men and thinking machines were developed in fiction, as in the original Frankenstein (McCorduck, 2004). Also, it was not always good news for the AI, as it suffered major setbacks, now referred to as AIWinters, in which financial funding and interest of researchers dropped. Fortunately, these were short-lived and it is my personal opinion that so many individuals, companies, governments are directly or indirectly funding AI that there will never be another AI Winter.
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Describing Human IntelligenceBehind all these, in every era and civilization, we can see an assumption that human intelligence" can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it." (McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester, & Shannon, 2006). But then, do we know everything about human intelligence? Is it a standalone feature of us, or do emotions, attitudes, moods, memories interact and interfere with each other?Human intelligence can be defined as mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment ("human intelligence | psychology", 2016). This general definition is satisfactory as far as discussions are among humans. When we want to explain this to a machine, when we are bound to work in terms of well-defined inputs and outputs, when we desire to create artificial intelligence, we require to understand it ourselves and this raises philosophical arguments about the nature of the mind and the ethics of creating artificial beings endowed with human-like intelligence (McCorduck, 2004).Nonetheless, legends, myths and fiction are not bound by determinism of inputs and outputs and contain sentient creatures, automatons that think, talk and act like a human would . However, to create something like this does require elaborate specification of requirements. Role of Emotions in IntelligenceEarlier, emotions and intelligence were considered distinct, but now we are finding that emotions make our thinking possible (McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester, & Shannon, 2006) and it is probably counterproductive to try to separate them (Pessoa, 2009). Isolated from all external stimuli, forced to make a rational decision, we are fully capable of coldly calculating multiple options, run them through in our minds and then choose an optimal path with maximum benefit and minimum loss. However, decisions are rarely taken such coldly and rarely are we so detached from the process and the outcome. We usually make decisions with emotions and then justify them with logic (Takahashi, 2013).Our propensity for making decision with emotions give us the life suggestion that we should never make a decision when we are angry, and never make a promise when we are happy ("Don't promise when you are happy, don't reply when you are angry, and don't decide when you are sad. - Tiny Buddha", 2016). It must happened with you also, that you took a decision when you were angry, and later, in hindsight, you realize you made a wrong decision and given a chance, you would do something else. ("Article: Emotional Intelligence Impacts Decision-Making - Jason Kleid: Changing Lives » Optimizing Performance", 2016)
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