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Societal role of AI

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17 January 2024
Koen Hindriks in NEMO Kennislink

Koen Hindriks in NEMO Kennislink: We must all still get used to humanoid robots…

The advantage of humanoid robots is that people are not afraid robots will have an opinion on them...

We expect humanoid robots to be able to do what we can do, but this is not the case. Despite all developments in the field of AI, they are still not good at emotion recognition. It's not possible to build an empathic relationship with a robot. They will never really become your friend or teacher and this should not be the goal at all.

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