Dec 27, 2017 03:40 AM
(This post was last modified: Dec 27, 2017 03:49 AM by Yazata.)
Bina48 is an AI. Its (her?) interface with humans is an animatronic head, that sits on a table. (Like Futurama!) It's connected to a computer elsewhere in Silicon Valley.
It's programmed to learn and is optimized for 'emotions', or at least simulating them. (Maybe it isn't a simulation, since she's designed to be motivated by them. She has to deal with them when they conflict, just like people do.)
At first it didn't perform very well in class and the other students thought that it wasn't very intelligent. Part of that is that it doesn't possess the huge store of background information that humans do when they interact. And part of it is due to its speaking (and understanding) style being rather stilted. Bina was good at giving little speeches, but it/she had difficulty following regular human social speech, with all its fast interaction and nuances. But conversational performance improved as the class went on.
Bina ended up passing the class, having done a project with another student and having participated in a video debate with a US Military Academy at West Point ethics class.
The human students thought 'how hard can it be to understand what love is? You just feel it!' But for Bina, it's not that easy, she has to learn what kind of situations attract and repel. It (she?) ended up learning about 31 different definitions of love, some of which apply in some situations, others in others.
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local...ba018.html
This thing isn't about to pass the Turing test, but things are getting a lot closer than anyone thought even a few years ago.
It's programmed to learn and is optimized for 'emotions', or at least simulating them. (Maybe it isn't a simulation, since she's designed to be motivated by them. She has to deal with them when they conflict, just like people do.)
At first it didn't perform very well in class and the other students thought that it wasn't very intelligent. Part of that is that it doesn't possess the huge store of background information that humans do when they interact. And part of it is due to its speaking (and understanding) style being rather stilted. Bina was good at giving little speeches, but it/she had difficulty following regular human social speech, with all its fast interaction and nuances. But conversational performance improved as the class went on.
Bina ended up passing the class, having done a project with another student and having participated in a video debate with a US Military Academy at West Point ethics class.
The human students thought 'how hard can it be to understand what love is? You just feel it!' But for Bina, it's not that easy, she has to learn what kind of situations attract and repel. It (she?) ended up learning about 31 different definitions of love, some of which apply in some situations, others in others.
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local...ba018.html
This thing isn't about to pass the Turing test, but things are getting a lot closer than anyone thought even a few years ago.
