What's the difference between a machine that really has emotions and one that merely behaves as if it has them?

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• Aaron Sloman (School of Computer Science, bham)
• Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:00-13:00
• Mechanical Engineering, B24.

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There is a vast amount of research on emotions in a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, AI, robotics.Unfortunately most of the research is based on very shallow theories about the general nature of minds and the specific (biological) mechanisms involved in affective states and processes.

I’ll attempt to counter some of this shallowness, by giving an introduction to a subset of ideas from our own Cognition and Affect project (started here in 1991, extending work previously done at Sussex University).

Homework:

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What’s the difference between a robot convincingly behaving as if it is angry, frightened, jealous, delighted, infatuated, concerned about your safety, etc. and really being in one of those states? What sorts of information-processing architectures would the real states and processes require?

Optional extra:

What sort of machine could enjoy doing mathematics?

This talk is part of the SoCS PhD Research Training Sessions series.

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