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AI bots could soon learn to manipulate human feelings

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8 years ago

July 26, 2016

AI bots could soon learn to manipulate human feelings

At a cognitive architectures conference in New York last week, Alexei Samsonovich, a professor in the Cybernetics Department at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, proposed a multi-part test.

It would involve a human and a machine interacting, but under the guise of avatars in a virtual world. The two sides play games involving teamwork, trust, betrayal and various methods of social communication.

If the AI is emotionally adept, it would form a bond with the human, who might eventually choose the AI’s wellbeing over their own. The test is inspired by the 1950-developed Turing test, which determines if a machine can successfully pass for human.

“Virtual agents and robots should be human-like so that humans could trust them and cooperate with them as with their equals. Therefore, artificial intelligence must be socially and emotionally responsive and able to think and learn like humans.

“And that implies such mechanisms as narrative thinking, autonomous goal setting, creative reinterpreting, active learning, and the ability to generate emotions and maintain interpersonal relationships,” Samsonovich said in a press release.

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