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12 - Artificial emotions and machine consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2014

By
Matthias Scheutz
Edited by
Keith Frankish  and
William M. Ramsey
Matthias Scheutz
Affiliation:
Tufts University
Keith Frankish
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
William M. Ramsey
Affiliation:
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Summary

Introduction

Over the last decade, interest in artificial emotions and machine consciousness has noticeably increased in artificial intelligence (AI), as witnessed by a number of specialized conferences and workshops dedicated to these themes. This interest is in part based on the recognition that emotions and consciousness have useful roles in humans and other animals, and that understanding these roles and implementing models of them on computers might help in making artificial agents smarter. But can machines even have emotions and be conscious, and if so, how could we go about designing such machines?

The goal of this chapter is to present an overview of the work in AI on emotions and machine consciousness, with an eye toward answering these questions. Starting with a brief philosophical perspective on emotions and machine consciousness to frame the work, the chapter first focuses on artificial emotions, and then moves on to machine consciousness – reflecting the fact that emotions and consciousness have been treated independently and by different communities in AI. The chapter concludes by discussing philosophical implications of AI research on emotions and consciousness.

Keywords

Hilary Putnammachine consciousnessartificial intelligencecommunicative aspectsemotion researchartificial emotionsAlan Turingarchitectural aspects
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The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence , pp. 247 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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