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Even after decades of research into artificial intelligence, machines still don’t think like human beings. Marvin Minsky, the discipline’s founding father, refuses to give up hope. His solution is to make machines more emotional – and feelings, he says, are simpler to model than rational thought. He talks to Amanda Gefter about the need for emotional machines, the inner workings of the human brain, and the future of AI.
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