AI in the time of Loneliness
The Assignment with Audie Cornish
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The Importance of Empathy in Artificial Intelligence
It's one thing to talk about artificial intelligence, but it's another to talk of artificial intimacy. In your writing, you describe this as fake empathy. Empathy is saying, I can put myself in your shoes. And that's what these new machines are trying to give you the feeling of.
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