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Feeling Without Feeling: How Emotive Machines Learn to Care (Functionally)

TL;DR for operators Emotion-like AI does not have to mean artificial suffering, digital joy, or a chatbot saying “I’m sad” with the theatrical subtlety of a bad intern. The useful idea in this paper is narrower: affect can be treated as a control layer that helps an agent decide what to do under uncertainty. ...

May 7, 2025 · 20 min · Zelina