Monday, April 18, 2005

5.2: Machines Like Us

According to Affect and Machine Design, "Animals have developed sophisticated mechanisms for surviving in an unpredictable, dynamic world, coupling the appraisals and evaluations of affect...the result is increased robustness and error tolerance." Why would we want to create machines to act like humans? Wasn't the point to create systems complimenting our shortcomings not adding to them? Affect is the reason we are not logical, timely or accurate. I don't know that I want an anxious computer or one that has the capacity to lie to me.

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