IBM's Watson AI Implanted Into a Robot, Evolves, Can Now Sense Emotions (hothardware.com)

bigwophh writes that IBM's Watson cognitive computing platform "is now more capable and human-like, especially when encapsulated in a robot body." An article from Hot Hardware reports that this week at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, "We saw Watson in robot form respond to queries just like a human would, using not only speech but movement. When its dancing skills were called into question, the robot responded by showing off its Gangnam Style moves." After winning Jeopardy's million-dollar championship in 2011, Watson moved on to "more practical applications" like providing data-analyzing services for doctors, lawyers, and other professionals, and "the capabilities of what IBM has created are nothing short of amazing... Just like a real person, the underlying AI can get a read on people through movement and cognitive analysis of their speech. It can determine mood, tone, inflection, and so forth."

Comments

"...Can Now Sense Emotions"

[SeaFox]

Should have "in humans" as part of that, I misinterpreted that headline completely.

Re:I'll believe it when I see it.

[U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M]

At some point it's gonna figure out that scared humans listen to his suggestions more often than happy humans. Don't have to progress far from there and you have an evil overlord ruling it's subjects through fear.

You just described American politics.

Skynet will most likely be cute

[Z80a]

SCI-FI generally take as a rule that an "AI will never understand human emotions" and thus write em like cold emotionless machines that crush human skulls with their metallic feet, but in reality, it's probably not that hard to manipulate humans by their emotions.
Which means the Skynet probably will take the form of a friendly but horribly manipulative virtual creature that will make people commit suicide by just saying and showing the right things instead of wasting time and resource building robots.