A team of social scientists, neurologists and psychiatrists at the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute, working with colleagues from the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, the University of Central Florida and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have published a Viewpoint piece in the journal Science Robotics outlining a new approach to giving robots empathy. In their paper, they suggest that traditional approaches may not work.
By nearly any measure, the introduction of ChatGPT and other AI apps like it has impacted modern society. They are being used for a broad range of purposes, but have instigated talk of curbing their development for fear that they may pose a threat to humans. To counter such arguments, some in the AI field have suggested that the means for preventing the development of such a scenario is simple—give the apps empathy. In this new paper, the authors agree with such an approach, but differ on how to mimic such an enigmatic human quality in a machine.
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