An "Emotional AI" Is Being Developed By A Team Of Russian ResearchersTrue Viral News

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made a few spectacular-sounding headlines this year, with various organizations showing off their own digital creation's cognitive capabilities. These tend to relate to "logical" intelligence, dealing with mathematics, rationality, and decision-making. However, just this month, a team of researchers from the National Research Nuclear University Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (NRNU MEPhI) has announced that they are developing an AI that is able to have both narrative and emotional intellect. If this so-called "Virtual Actor" (VA) is able to understand human emotions, it will buck the trend in the types of AIs emerging from other research teams across the world. Google's DeepDream, for example, is a truly surreal convoluted neural network that can "think" of hallucinogenic images.