Is virtual empathy the ghost in the machine for AI? - Tech Weekly podcast
by Presented by Nathalie Nahai. Produced by Alannah C from Technology | The Guardian on (#T952)
Tech Weekly goes live in this panel discussion from the 2015 Web Summit
Could machines ever understand us emotionally? How much is technology already affecting our cognitive abilities, mental wellbeing and emotional lives? And as our personal and emotional experiences migrate to alternate platforms, VR, mobile, and others, will empathy be lost in an AI world?
In the second of our podcasts from the annual Web Summit in Dublin, Nathalie Nahai is joined on stage to discuss by Oren Frank from Talkspace; Rana el Kaliouby from Affectiva and Ebbe Altberg, CEO of Linden Lab.
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