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

[Andy Blunden]

Does a robot have "motivation"?

andy

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Andy Blunden
http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
On 3/07/2018 5:28 PM, Rod Parker-Rees wrote:
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> 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.
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>  
>
> Does anyone know about any AI projects which consider how
> machines might feel about what they learn?
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>  
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Rod
>
>  
>
> *From:*xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
> <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> *On Behalf Of *Greg Thompson
> *Sent:* 03 July 2018 02:50
> *To:* eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> *Subject:* [Xmca-l] Interesting article on robots and
> social learning
>
>  
>
> 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/
>
>  
>
> -Greg 
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> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
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