Why do we want a robot to understand human emotions. Yes, it is very difficult to build a robot like this. But is it necessary?. Where this human race is going to.
In making name, money and fame finally robots should not replace humans. Now a days we need to teach humanity to humans not to robots.
@Shubhasanu different people (I imagine both here and elsewhere) will have different takes on this.
For my part I am a little conservative on this and do not believe ‘robots’, if you will, can yet understand emotions.
Or when I was younger I remember studying Wittgenstein, less the earlier Tractatus, but the later Investigations had a big effect on me and I was left with the latent thought that ‘emotion’ is in part the ‘color’ of the word in the circumstance (and instance) in which we learn it. Its experience in practice is also a part.
I don’t feel we are LLMs and this distinction cannot be separated out.
That said, I do feel there are some very challenging problems we either ought to, or could solve (say in medicine), that waiting for one great mind-- Or even a thousand of them may never be enough.
Obviously a single person can hold only so much both ‘data’ and ‘concentration’ in their own head, and personally I think that is where this all holds promise.
Like everything in technology though, you can decide to be on the good team or the bad one.
I mean I don’t want to read a book written by AI, or have it ‘scan my feelings’.
[I mean, I have read about some really extreme cases where if you could get someone in fMRI, you can now image mental perceptions with an NN].
But, that is not the world I wish to live in either.
So, your concern is not unfounded, but heard.
Join the good team or enjoy a nice book.
Was it Basho (or Du Fu ? I am now forgetting), that said ‘Have a cup of tea.’
-A
@Shubhasanu I was wrong:
At least Li Bai didn’t spring to mind;