Take 5: How Humans Benefit as Machines Get Smarter

So what does this mean for us humans? Short answer: the benefits are limited only by our imagination. For a longer answer, here's what our faculty have to say about machines as counselors, coaches, chauffeurs, and full-fledged intellectual partners. Are therapist robots in our future? In a recent study, Kellogg's Eli Finkel and colleagues had participants share a difficult personal story to a robot named Travis.