Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!ok From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Language-related capabilities (was Re: Human-human communication) Message-ID: <1042@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 88 06:17:02 GMT References: <32403@linus.UUCP> <238@proxftl.UUCP> <700@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA Lines: 8 In article <700@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu>, kww@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (K Watkins) writes: > If so, why does the possibility of sensory input to computers make so much > more sense to the AI community than the possibility of emotional output? Or > does that community see little value in such output? In any case, I don't see > much evidence that anyone is trying to make it more possible. Why not? Aaron Sloman had a paper "You don't need a soft skin to have a warm heart". I don't know whether that has been followed up.