Artificial Emotional Intelligence
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March 10, 2020Prioritizing Accountability and Trust
March 10, 2020Artificial Emotional Intelligence
Research teams at Loving AI and Hanson Technologies are teaching machines unconditional love, active listening and empathy.
Research teams at Loving AI and Hanson Technologies are teaching machines unconditional love, active listening and empathy.
In the future, machines will convincingly exhibit human emotions like love, happiness, fear and sadness—begging the question, what is an authentic emotion?
Theory of mind refers to the ability to imagine the mental state of others. This has long been considered a trait unique to humans and certain primates. A.I. researchers are working to train machines to build theory of mind models of their own. This technology could improve existing A.I. therapy applications such as WoeBot.
By designing machines to respond with empathy and concern, digital assistants like Alexa will become more and more a part of one’s family. This technology could eventually end up in hospitals, schools and prisons, providing emotional support robots to patients, students and inmates. According to research from health service organization Cigna, the rate of loneliness in the U.S. has doubled in the last 50 years.
Two years ago, former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May created a new cabinet position, the world’s first Minister of Loneliness. In our increasingly connected world, people report feeling more isolated. In the future, governments struggling with a massive mental health crisis, such as South Korea, may turn to emotional support robots to address this issue at scale.
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This trend is part of our section on Artificial Intelligence. Other trends in this section include:
- A.I. and Digital Dividends
- Prioritizing Accountability and Trust
- Ambient Computing Expands
- Ubiquitous Digital Assistants
- A.I. for Drug Development
- A.I. for Interviews
- Consumer-Grade A.I. Applications
- The New Mil-Tech Industrial Complex
- National A.I. Strategies
- The Race to Establish A.I. Rules
- Algorithmic Warfare
- Making A.I. Explain Itself
- Using A.I. in Critical Systems
- China’s A.I. Rules
- Artificial Emotional Intelligence
- Personal Digital Twins
- Problematic Data Sets
- A.I. to Catch Cheaters
- Algorithms Designed to Target Vulnerable Populations
- A.I. Still Has a Bias Problem
- A.I. Systems Intentionally Hiding Data
- The Rise of Undocumented A.I. Accidents
- Multitask Learning
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- New Generative Modeling Techniques
- Probabilistic Programming Languages
- Machine Image Completion
- Hybrid Human-Computer Vision Analysis
- Predictive Machine Vision
- Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
- Customized Machine Learning
- Graph Neural Networks
- Intelligent Optical Character Recognition
- A.I. for the Creative Process
- Generative Algorithms for Content Production
- Generating Virtual Environments from Short Videos
- Automated Versioning
- Automatic Voice Cloning and Dubbing
- Spotting Machine-Written Text
- Algorithmic Fact Checking
- Datamining Crowds
- Deep Linking
- Corporate Biometric Spoofing
- Bots
- Global Rush to Fund A.I.
- Algorithm Marketplaces
- Marketplace Consolidation
- Fragmentation
- Liability Insurance for A.I.
- Ambient Surveillance
- Creating 3D Models from Flat 2D Images
- Neuro-Symbolic A.I. Algorithms and Systems
- Real-Time Machine Learning
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
- Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC)
- Natural Language Generation (NLG)
- Real-Time Context in Machine Learning
- General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
- Deep Learning Scales
- Faster and More Powerful Open Source Frameworks
- Reinforcement Learning and Hierarchical RL
- Continuous Learning
- Using A.I. to Speed the Process of Scientific Discovery
- A.I. in the Cloud
- Robotic Process Automation
- Digital Twins and Cognitive Twins in the Enterprise
- Robots with Cognitive Skills
- Advanced A.I. Chipsets
- Serverless Computing
- Proprietary, Homegrown A.I. Languages
- Proliferation of Franken-Algorithms
- Companies Manipulating A.I. Systems for Competitive Advantage
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