The Social-Emotional Turing Challenge

the emotions of others is an essential part of being a socially functioning human. Without it we would not know what actions will most likely make others around us happy versus mad or sad. Our abilities to please friends, placate enemies, inspire our children, and secure cooperation from our colleagues would suffer. For these reasons a truly intelligent human-level AI will need the ability to reason about other agents’ emotions in addition to intellectual capabilities embodied in other tasks such as the Winograd schema challenge, textbook reading and question answering (Gunning et al. 2010, Clark 2015), image understanding, or task planning. Thinking at the Articles