[Xmca-l] Re: Interesting article on robots and social learning

[Alfredo Jornet Gil]

Andy, are not motives aspects of activities (not of individuals)? If so, the question you just posed does not seem to make sense, does it?


Another question would be, is there a robot that can be the subject of sensuous, objective activity? Obviously, the Turing test would not be able to answer this question. But would a test capable of addressing that question consist in finding out whether the robot "has" emotion, or "motivation"? Or, what would such a test look like?


Alfredo


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Does a robot have "motivation"?

andy

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On 3/07/2018 5:28 PM, Rod Parker-Rees wrote:
Hi Greg,

What is most interesting to me about the understanding of learning which informs most AI projects is that it seems to assume that affect is irrelevant. The role of caring, liking, worrying etc. in social learning seems to be almost universally overlooked because information is seen as something that can be 'got' and 'given' more than something that is distributed in relationships.

Does anyone know about any AI projects which consider how machines might feel about what they learn?

All the best,

Rod

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I'm ambivalent about this project but I suspect that some young CHAT scholar out there could have a lot to contribute to a project like this one:
https://www.sapiens.org/column/machinations/artificial-intelligence-culture/

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