New software agents will infer what users are thinking

(Carnegie Mellon University) Personal assistants today can figure out what you are saying, but what if they could infer what you were thinking based on your actions? A team of academic and industrial researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University is working to build artificially intelligent agents with this social skill. The goal of the four-year, $6.6 million project, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is to use machine social intelligence to help human-and-machine teams work together safely, efficiently and productively.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news