You might like it when your Tivo predicts what you want to watch, but you probably don’t think that makes it intelligent. But what if your Tivo could cheer for a game, or cry with you when you’re ...

The rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has revived long-standing debates about whether machines could one day possess consciousness similar to humans. However, beyond the technical ...

These questions are explored in the study “ Synthetic Emotions and Consciousness: Exploring Architectural Boundaries,” published in AI & Society, which investigates how AI can incorporate emotion-like ...

Analyst firm Gartner recently predicted that by 2022 smart machines will understand our emotions better than our close friends and relatives, which of course is an outrageous claim, as the ...

Words are important to express ourselves. What we don’t say, however, may be even more instrumental in conveying emotions. Humans can often tell how people around them feel through non-verbal cues ...