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#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America

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Is There a Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy?

I wonder if AI systems can help somehow and bridge the gap of what is this person's life like. To understand someone means you must agree with everything that they do, which is it right? And if the only way I can feel for someone is to completely understand them and make them like me in some way, well, then we're lost, right? Because we're not all exactly like each other, and I have to understand everything that you've gone through. It helps clearly, but they're separable ideas, right? Even though they get clearly tangled up in one another.

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