How to make agents that display believable empathy? An ethological approach to empathic behavior
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The plan to engineer “empathic agents” is very ambitious, specifically because many researchers resist attributing such ability to any animal other than humans. Thus it seems to be paradoxical to have emphatic agents but no empathic animals. This review suggests that affective computing may be boosting force for developing a unified approach to the evolution in empathic behaviour in living systems, and the knowledge gained could be utilised for designing machines that produce empathic behaviour which is believable for the human partners.
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