Next up: a computer with emotions

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An intelligent agent called Virtual Actor that has both narrative and emotional intellect is under development at MEPhI, expected to be online within the next year and a half. It will have both an emotional and a narrative intellect. It will understand the context of what is going on, as well as unfolding scenarios. Based on this information, it will make plans and set targets. One of its capabilities is to be an actor, a virtual robot playing the role of a particular person.

"Our principal goal is to formulate the basic principles that natural intelligence in the human brain is built upon. Biological solutions are in many respects superior to artificial solutions in terms of their adaptability, learning ability, resistance to unexpected interventions, and so on, and we would like to model these principles on the computer," explained Professor of the Cybernetics Department Alexei Samsonovich.

Ideally, people and computers will eventually have a mutual understanding, in a future when humans will perceive machines not as tools, but as partners and assistants. Computers will understand human emotions and goals, as well as the situation in the outside world.

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