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Yu Que Professor Michael Rectenwald Science, Technology and Society July 2015 Sense and Sensibility of Artificial Intelligence: Introduction When Machines Can Love Michael Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most breath-taking topics in science and technology fields today. While the time frame of its real emergence has long been the focus of debates, the moral concern of such a practice is a more urgent question for the human race to answer. Authors and pundits from Mary Shelley in 1818 to Stephen Spielberg in 2001 have expressed their views on this problem already. British computer scientist Alan Turing was asked the question “can machines think?” half a decade ago, after which he developed the Turing test as a means …show more content…

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley in 1818. In this masterpiece, the young student of science Victor Frankenstein creates a living creature by assembling pieces of corpses. The creature has a hideous look and everyone he meets is afraid of him, which drives him into living in the woods. A family lives very close to him in a small cottage then. He learns the human language from listening to the family’s daily conversations and from reading the books they throw away. Understandably, he comes to have this desire to make friends with the family before long, hoping that his human-like intelligence will make them feel somehow connected with him. The family, however, leaves the house immediately out of fear, leading the creature to outrage and doubt about his existence. He blamed Frankenstein for bringing him to life, and …show more content…

However, emotions obtained by such an empirical method can be negative and therefore can pose a threat to mankind. Here comes the challenge – is there a way to endow artificial intelligence with an individual right to develop its own emotions, but without threatening the existence of the human Michael Rectenwald 7/30/2015 3:49 PM Michael Rectenwald 7/30/2015 3:49 PM race? In the later sections, I will try to shed some light on the questions raised above from a more scientific perspective. Michael Rectenwald 7/30/2015 3:49 PM 3. Current Developments in the Field Human beings tend to involve emotions into their decision-making process. Recent studies have shown that advanced artificial intelligence can actually do the same. Multi-agents system (MAS) is a system in which more than one intelligent agent can work together to achieve a collective goal. In such systems, the cooperation and negotiation within machines have been observed. Therefore, it is not Michael Rectenwald 7/30/2015 3:49 PM 5 The Blue Fairy is a character in the fairy tale Pinocchio. Her magic successfully transforms Pinocchio, the puppet, into a human boy. Field available for additional information in

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