Eli5 What are sentiments/emotions and why can’t a robot have them?
In: 1
Sentiments/emotions are a byproduct of the patterns of signals running around our brains. We don’t fully understand how brains work so we don’t know how to build a brain with digital circuits, which is what all robots use right now, so (as far as we can tell) they can’t experience sentiments/emotions.
We’re *really* sure that neurons (what our brain has) don’t work like switches (what computers have), we’re not sure if we can get the switches to “fake it” well enough to make a computer conscious or feel emotions. This is an area of active research in artificial intelligence.
Latest Answers