robotics engineering
You might like it when your Tivo predicts what you want to watch, but you probably don't think that makes it intelligent. But what if your Tivo could cheer for a game, or cry with you when you're watching a poignant death scene in
Battlestar Galactica? Researchers with the HUMAINE project are studying machine/human emotional interactions, and they're asking this very question. In essence, will people consider their machines intelligent when those machines can express what appear to be feelings?
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