Affect and Artificial Intelligence

Elizabeth A. Wilson

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English

University of Washington Press
17 August 2010

Philosophy of science; History of science; History of engineering & technology; Computing: general; Artificial intelligence

Series: In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science

In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established, what kind of intelligence could be built? Should machine intelligence mimic the abstract thinking of a chess player or should it be more like the developing mind of a child? Should an intelligent agent only think, or should it also learn, feel, and grow?

Affect and Artificial Intelligence is the first in-depth analysis of affect and intersubjectivity in the computational sciences. Elizabeth Wilson makes use of archival and unpublished material from the early years of AI (1945-70) until the present to show that early researchers were more engaged with questions of emotion than many commentators have assumed. She documents how affectivity was managed in the canonical works of Walter Pitts in the 1940s and Turing in the 1950s, in projects from the 1960s that injected artificial agents into psychotherapeutic encounters, in chess-playing machines from the 1940s to the present, and in the Kismet (sociable robotics) project at MIT in the 1990s.

By: Elizabeth A. Wilson
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780295990514
ISBN 10: 0295990511
Series: In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 17 August 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction | The Machine Has No Fear 1. The Positive Affects of Alan Turing 2. Shaming AI: Helplessness, Confusion, and Error 3. Artificial Psychotherapy 4. Walter Pitts and the Inhibition of Affect Notes Appendixes References Index

Elizabeth A. Wilson is a professor in the Department of Women's Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition and Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body.

Reviews for Affect and Artificial Intelligence

"""Original and beautifully written."" -Lucy Suchman, Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University ""An elegantly written, thoroughly engaging, and absolutely compelling history of the role of emotions and affect in thought about, and design of, 'artificial intelligence.'"" -Robert Mitchell, Duke University"