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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

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Emotions and Consciousness in AI

It's fascinating to think how to incorporate emotion into a computational agent. It almost seems like a silly statement to make, but it perhaps seems silly because we have such a poor understanding of the mechanism of fear of lions. But at the core of it is another word that we know nothing about but say a lot, which is consciousness. Yes, it is an important question. You can build representations and functions, I think into these agents that act like emotions and consciousness, perhaps.

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