AI as Companion? From Digital Pets to Simulated Empathy
From care robots to digital pets: systems read emotion without feeling it. Can we feel accompanied by something that can't feel back?
From care robots to digital pets, systems now analyse voice and gaze to construct models of our emotional states, enabling response without lived experience. Recognition is not reciprocity; classification is not compassion. What does it mean to feel accompanied by a system that does not feel?
A lecture by Professor Matt Jones
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Gresham College
Barnard's Inn Hall
Holborn London EC1N 2HH
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