Affect and Artificial Intelligence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Elizabeth A., Author.

Series:

In vivo : the cultural mediations of biomedical science Affect and artificial intelligence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Psychological aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

Information technology.

Affect (Psychology).

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA, USA University of Washington Press 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established, what kind of intelligence could be built? Should machine intelligence mimic the abstract thinking of a chess player or should it be more like the developing mind of a child? Should an intelligent agent only think, or should it also learn, feel, and grow? Affect and Artificial Intelligence is the first in-depth analysis of affect and intersubjectivity in the computational sciences. Elizabeth Wilson makes use of archival and unpublished material from the early years of AI (1945-70) until the present to show that early researchers were more engaged with questions of emotion than many commentators have assumed. She documents how affectivity was managed in the canonical works of Walter Pitts in the 1940s and Turing in the 1950s, in projects from the 1960s that injected artificial agents into psychotherapeutic encounters, in chess-playing machines from the 1940s to the present, and in the Kismet (sociable robotics) project at MIT in the 1990s.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Machine Has No Fear

1. The Positive Affects of Alan Turing

2. Shaming AI: Helplessness, Confusion, and Error

3. Artificial Psychotherapy

4. Walter Pitts and the Inhibition of Affect

Notes

Appendixes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780295800004

0295800003

OCLC:

744362069