Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ukma!gatech!linus!mbunix!bwk From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Summary: Robots need feelings. Learning machines need emotions. Keywords: Feelings, Emotions, Intelligence, Learning Message-ID: <42341@linus.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 02:51:16 GMT References: <484@soleil.UUCP> <1654@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <1908@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1791@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <1918@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <44150@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <281@esosun.UUCP> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) Organization: Hysterics Associates, Lake Placid Lines: 22 In article <281@esosun.UUCP> jackson@freyja.css.gov (Jerry Jackson) writes: > ... why does everyone >assume that an intelligent machine would be a *feeling* being? An ambulatory robot would be well advised to have a sensory alarm system to report mechanical stress in its limbs. Otherwise it is liable to damage itself while navigating through a hazardous environment. An intelligent machine that seeks to explore and learn about the world in which it is embedded would be well advised to have an emotional system which monitors its success or failure in knowledge acquisition. Successful lines of investigation would thereby be encouraged, while fruitless efforts would be abandoned in favor of a fresh tack. By monitoring its emotions, a learning system would also know whether to report its progress or ask for assistance when its mentor inquires, "How are you doing, today?" --Barry Kort