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| | AI (the movie) and AI Panel Discussion at MIT |
 | | Indeed, love, or human emotion, was a major theme of the A.I. event at MIT on April 30, 2001, which featured a ten minute preview of the film, videotaped interviews with Steven Spielberg and others, and a QandA session with Kathleen Kennedy, the executive producer of the film, and its star, Haley Joel Osment. |
 | | That's the goal of research by MIT AI Lab post doctoral fellow Dr. Cynthia Breazeal: the creation of an emotional robot, or at least a robot with the emotional range of an infant. |
 | | Her KISMET does not attempt to pass Turing tests with semantic sophistication, nor does it play chess; instead, it reacts to a wide variety of stimuli in ways modeled after basic developmental psychology to create a different kind of interface with humans. |
| www.kurzweilai.net /articles/art0174.html?printable=1 (1153 words) |
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