Why Artificial Empathy, not AI, is the way of the future.

I recently read Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence, a paper published by the White House's Executive Office of the President, National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Technology (or EOPNSTCCT for short!). One of the important distinctions it highlights is the difference between Narrow, and General AI. Narrow AI (sometimes referred to as Weak AI) underpins fairly specific services like recommendations on Amazon, ad targeting, and even Facebook's news feed. Watson is unique in that it applies both machine learning, and expert systems, but it's still essentially an advanced'question answering' machine. General AI (also called Artificial General Intelligence, AGI) refers to a notional future AI system that exhibits intelligent behaviours across a complete range of human cognitive tasks.