Machines are now being programed to learn how and when to display emotional feelings. This approach suggests that the circumstances where an emotional response is appropriate are always predictable. The behavior manifested or the feelings are assumed to be definable enough to be programable?
Is that all that feelings are? Does the same set of circumstances always produce the same set of feelings? Emotions cause feelings but do all feelings trigger an action?
Artificial intelligence systems do not distinguish the world around them from the what is inside of their intelligence in the same way that humans do.
Humans can learn to identify emotional triggers and also how to manage them. This would mean that the outcome of that emotional trigger might be negative if not managed, but positive if it was managed.
Humans can box up an emotion and decide not to act on it but machines, even if they could make that choice, would likely have different motives. If machines are programed to react to emotions then can they be programed to have a choice in the reaction an emotions triggers?
Imagine a mechanical hand programed to play the piano. The human hand doing the same thing can change the touch that is applied to the keys based on moods and feelings. Could a machine be programed to do that? A better question is could it vary the mood without programing?
