Forget A.I., Russia is on the Verge of a Breakthrough in A.E.: Artificial Emotions

Speaking at the Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures in New York, professor Alexi Samsonovich, from Moscow's National Research Nuclear University Cybernetics Department, stated that Russian researchers are on the verge of a major breakthrough in AI. But Samsonovich feels this breakthrough won't necessarily be measurable in terms of artificial consciousness -- we can't even prove that humans are conscious, let alone an entity that might be as alien as AI -- but rather that true advancement in AI would be seen in terms of AE: artificial emotions.

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