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How do we stop intelligent machines from taking over the world and enslaving us all?
Give them emotions.
That's the radical suggestion of Patrick Levy Rosenthal, founder and chief executive of Emoshape, a tech firm that has developed a computer chip that can synthesise 12 human emotions.
"It's logical to conclude that autonomous machines made of electricity and metal will eventually see us as their main competitors for those resources, and try to take control," he says.
This is the dystopian vision of artificial intelligence (AI) run amok that luminaries such as physicist Prof Stephen Hawking, and tech entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Elon Musk, worry about.
But Mr Rosenthal believes this nightmare scenario will be avoided if we create machines that can empathise.
"We can teach them to feel happiness when they perform well, solve problems and receive positive feedback from humans," he says. "This will reduce the threat, because they will always work to achieve human happiness."
Machines that can understand human emotion - and express their own emotions - will also be more effective colleagues and helpers, he believes.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday June 12 2016, @09:06AM
The EPU is based on Patrick Levy-Rosenthal’s Psychobiotic Evolutionary Theory using twelve primary emotions identified in the psycho-evolutionary theory. The groundbreaking EPU algorithms effectively enable machines to respond to stimuli in line with one of the twelve primary emotions: anger, fear, sadness, disgust, indifference, regret, surprise, anticipation, trust, confidence, desire and joy.
The most innovative aspect of Emoshape microcontroller breakthrough is its real-time appraisal computation and Emotional Profile Graph (EPG) computation functionality allowing the AI or robot to experience 64 trillion distinct emotional states. Emotional stimuli is stored within the memory bank through emotional patterns or fingerprints.
They have pretty graphs too. As an aside, by using the phrase "Psychobiotic Evolutionary Theory", I have increased the number of googled articles featuring this term to four.