Why Machines Will Never Feel Empathy: A Q&A With MIT’s Sherry Turkle

 By Medium - 2021-03-16

Description

The pathbreaking MIT professor on her new memoir, and the past, present, and future of our efforts to make technology feel human.

Summary

  • The pathbreaking MIT professor on her new memoir, and the past, present, and future of our efforts to make technology feel human In the fall of 1976, Sherry Turkle was recruited to the faculty of MIT to join what would soon become the program on Science, Technology, and Society — one of the nation’s first.
  • After having written a book on French psychoanalysis — a “sociology of the sciences of the mind,” as she describes it — Turkle was fascinated with the cultural forces that shift our thought.
  • That would be an interesting conversation for me.
  • Some of the examples of children programming were kind of sad because I was optimistic that children would get into the guts of the machine and learn more than it turned out was commercially viable for them to know.

 

Topics

  1. Machine_Learning (0.25)
  2. NLP (0.11)
  3. Database (0.09)

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