[ExI] Emotional AIs - A Work in Progress

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What might happen if AI can feel emotions?
By AI News | December 19, 2024

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In a world where artificial intelligence is becoming omnipresent, it’s
fascinating to think about the prospect of AI-powered robots and
digital avatars that can experience emotions, similar to humans.
AI models lack consciousness and they don’t have the capacity to feel
emotions, but what possibilities might arise if that were to change?

Is this even possible?
Surprisingly, we may not be that far off. AI systems like Antix are
already capable of expressing artificial empathy. It’s a platform for
creating digital humans that are programmed to respond sympathetically
when they recognise feelings of frustration, anger or upset in the
people they interact with. Its digital humans can detect people’s
emotions based on their speech, the kinds of words they use,
intonation, and body language.

AI is getting real
Emotional AI systems are a work in progress, and the result will be
digital humans that feel more lifelike in any scenario where they can
be useful.
The CEO of Zoom has talked about the emergence of AI-powered digital
twins that can participate in video calls on their user’s behalf,
allowing the user to be in two places at once, so to speak. If the
digital human version of your boss can express empathy, satisfaction,
excitement and anger, the concept would be more effective, fostering a
more realistic connection, even if the real boss isn’t present in
their physical form.
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It looks like AI will soon be able to emulate emotional reactions when
appropriate.
If they get it right, it will have the same effect as if AI did
actually feel emotions.

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