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
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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.