Teaching Machines to Feel: Can AI Models Develop Empathy?
Alternatively, is it possible for robots to feel feelings
Artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI, is something that every industry is talking about. From the arts to scientific research, AI is appearing in these fields on the news:
“Generative AI will be designing new drugs all on its own in the near future” (CNBC, May 5, 2024), “AI can now generate entire songs on demand. What does this mean for music as we know it?” (The Conversation, May 2, 2024), “POV: AI-generated album covers prioritize virality over creativity” (It’s Nice That, February 22, 2024).
And yet, despite all the hype, generative AI is still very much in its infancy.
Despite being the most popular chatbot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is known to be plagued with hallucination problems, making up false information that sounds convincingly real. According to Vectara, chatbots invent information (even when specifically created to prevent hallucinations) between 3 to 27% of the time. Governments are still struggling to decide how copyright laws can apply to generative AI while writers are bringing up class-action cases over AI training using their works without permission. And to make things worse, AI has been found to become more covertly racist as they advance. When…
