WATCH Joseph S. Fulda, CSE, PhD 701 P&st 177th Street #21, New }brk, N Y 10033 fidda@acm.org; http://www.cd~.org/eight.html Copyright © 1998, Joseph S. Fulda Giving ComputersEmotions-Why and How Afffbetive Computing by Rosalind W. Picard is one of those few books which set a new paradigm for a field, in this case AI. AI has had several paradigms: toy systems, high-performance systems, rule-based systems, systems for general intelligence, logic-based reasoning systems, knowledge-based systems. These paradigms have, of course, overlapped considerably and have also interacted with each other, but only some have met their promise. Each paradigm was introduced because of perceived deficiencies in prior paradigms or perceived efficiencies or proficiencies in the paradigm being introduced. To these and other paradigms, Picard wants to add cognitive-affective systems. In this essay, we will briefly review what she means by such systems, why she wants to develop them, and how she envisions them. [1] Picard has a strong grounding in psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science: Thus when she speaks about human emotions, she is able to document her claims with a goodly number of studies from the relevant literature. Emotions, she notes, are integral to human perception. Thus, when "subjects are asked
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