Heart of the Machine : Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence Heart of the Machine : Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence

Heart of the Machine : Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence

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Publisher Description

Imagine a robotic stuffed animal that can read and respond to a child's emotional state or a commercial that can change based on a customer's facial expression. Heart of the Machine explores the next giant step in the relationship between humans and technology: the ability of computers to recognize, respond to, and even replicate emotions. Computers have long been integral to our lives, and their advances continue at an exponential rate. Many believe that artificial intelligence equal or superior to human intelligence will happen in the not-too-distance future. Futurist Richard Yonck argues that emotion, the first, most basic, and most natural form of communication, is at the heart of how we will soon work with and use computers.

Instilling emotions into computers is the next leap in our centuries-old obsession with creating machines that replicate humans. But for every benefit this progress may bring to our lives, there is a possible pitfall. Emotion recognition could lead to advanced surveillance, and the same technology that can manipulate our feelings could become a method of mass control. Heart of the Machine is an exploration of the new and inevitable ways in which mankind and technology will interact.

GENRE
Science & Nature
NARRATOR
RD
Robertson Dean
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:19
hr min
RELEASED
2017
March 14
PUBLISHER
Tantor Media, Inc
SIZE
483.7
MB