Dawn of Computer Emotional A.I...
Scientists are on the verge of creating an EMOTIONAL
computer: AI could think like a person and bond with humans within years
Called 'Virtual Actor', it is expected online within the
next year and a half
Machine will be used to play the role of a person, and
set its own goals
Will understand context of conversation and keep up with
events
Researchers will also create simpler version of the AI in
the form of game
By ABIGAIL BEALL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:48 EST, 8 July 2016 | UPDATED: 16:19 EST, 8
July 2016
Scientists are closer to creating a computer with
emotions.
Researchers in Russia are expected to reveal an emotional
computer within a year and a half, which will be able to think like a person
and build up trust, its creators say.
The system, called 'Virtual Actor', is being created by
the National Research Nuclear University in Moscow.
The AI, called 'Virtual Actor', is expected to be online
within the next year and a half.
The researchers say it will understand the context of
what is going on, as well as keeping up with unfolding events.
The machine needs the ability to study not through
programming or reinforcement learning, but as a thinking person, the
researchers said.
'Any action has an emotional connotation, as a result of
which certain relations develop, such as trust, subordination, leadership,' the
lead researcher said.
Its name was given because one of the main functions it
will serve will be as an actor, playing the role of a specific person.
'The researchers say it will understand the context of
what is going on, as well as keeping up with unfolding events.
The machine needs the ability to study not through
programming or reinforcement learning, but as a thinking person, the
researchers said.
The machine itself must be able to set learning goals,
formulate questions to achieve these goals and actively seek the answers.
The researchers started by looking at how the human brain
works.
'Our principal goal is to formulate the basic principles that
natural intelligence in the human brain is built upon,' Professor Alexei
Samsonovich from the Cybernetics Department.
'Biological solutions are in many respects superior to
artificial solutions in terms of their adaptability, learning ability, resistance
to unexpected interventions, and so on, and we would like to model these
principles on the computer.'
The area of the brain responsible for memory, the
hippocampus, uses neurons to perceive space. If the neurons are positioned
along a certain plane, their activity will be focused on a certain point.
COULD YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH A ROBOT?
A recent survey found 21 per cent of British people would
have sex with a droid, and one in three would go on a date.
The survey was done VoucherCodesPro who asked 2,816
sexually active Brits aged 18 to describe which activities they would then
carry out with a cyborg.
Researchers asked those participants who said they would
have sex with a robot why they would do it.
Seventy two per cent said they thought the robots 'would
be very good at it' while 28 per cent said it would be a new experience.
'The question is: Do we have to reproduce millions of neurons,
tens of thousands of connections between each of them and hundreds of thousands
of millions of ion channels just to represent two numbers?' Professor
Samsonovich said.
'I'm sure that existing computers, their parameters in
terms of speed and memory volume, are already sufficient for creating humanoid
intelligence.'
The researchers also plan to create the agent in a
simplified form as a computer game.
'A virtual agent and a real person control the figures on
a computer screen, interacting with each other, thus building social rapport
based on emotionally charged actions,' Professor Samsonovich said.
'They can attack, welcome, give way, help move a stone,
and so on.
'Any action has an emotional connotation, as a result of
which certain relations develop, such as trust, subordination, leadership, etc.
If a person in the virtual world is unable to tell man from machine, this goes
to show that we have reached a human level, albeit in a limited sense.'
'I very much hope that artificial intelligence will be
free of human flaws. Now, amid the development of biological and genetic
weapons, artificial intelligence is the most harmless of upcoming discoveries.
I believe it will be a major step forward, a big event for humankind,'
Professor Samsonovich said.
This is not the first plan to build an emotional robot.
Sony announced earlier this year it is on a mission to make a robot capable of
'forming an emotional bond'.
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