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Human Emotion and Machine Emotion - Studies of Emotion in AI

Authors:
Shuo Wang
Shuo Yang

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Emotion.

Abstract:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly a hot word in the field of contemporary art in recent years. The consciousness, intuition and emotion of AI have attracted the attention of artists in particular, and many art works have explored this topic. Does AI have the emotional characteristics of humans? Is the emotion of AI equal to the emotion that defines human beings? This paper attempts to step out of the anthropocentric perspective, examine the boundary and relationship between human emotion and machine emotion, and inject a new theoretical perspective into the AI artistic practice. This paper first discusses what emotion is in the biological sense, analyzes whether a machine can have emotion from both positive and negative aspects, and puts forward the definition of "machine emotion". This paper also reviews some theories and practices related to emotion in the AI field. The conclusion of this paper is that although artificial intelligence cannot possess human emotions, it can possess “machine emotions” beyond the narrow sense of human emotions, and the construction of emotional mechanisms inside AI may become a new research direction in this field.

Pages: 9 to 15

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: April 18, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4448

ISBN: 978-1-61208-839-6

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from April 18, 2021 to April 22, 2021