Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence
- 10h 19m 1s
- Richard Yonck
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- 2017
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.
In this Audiobook
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Chapter 1 - The Dawn of Emotional Machines
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Chapter 2 - How Emotion Bootstrapped the First Technological Revolution
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Chapter 3 - Building the Future
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Chapter 4 - Tell Us How You Feel
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Chapter 5 - Launching the Emotion Economy
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Chapter 6 - Kismet and the Robots
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Chapter 7 - The Uncanny Valley of the Dolls
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Chapter 8 - Learning Affectively
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Chapter 9 - Marching into a Minefield
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Chapter 10 - Sentimental Fools
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Chapter 11 - Who Will Really Care?
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Chapter 12 - Mixing it Up
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Chapter 13 - The Love Machines
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Chapter 14 - AI in the Family
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Chapter 15 - FeelGood, Inc.
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Chapter 16 - Window in the Dark: AIs in Fiction
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Chapter 17 - For Better and for Worse
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Chapter 18 - Will AIs Dream of Electric Sheep?
