Huawei building an AI that can "provide emotional interactions"

Huawei seems to have drawn inspiration from the 2013 movie "Her."

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Huawei has added its name to the list of OEMs trying to build their own virtual voice assistants. Google has its Assistant, Apple has Siri, Samsung has Bixby, LG has ThinQ, it was just a matter of some time when Huawei came up with its own AI based assistant.

 
Huawei building an AI that can

The company already has a voice assistant for its products in China, but now it seeks to push the limits and develop a new one that will 'provide emotional interactions.' Huawei vice president of software engineering, Felix Zhang, told CNBC about the upcoming product. "We want to provide emotional interactions. We think that, in the future, all our end users wish [that] they can interact with the system in the emotional mode. This is the direction we see in the long run."

 

The team of developers working on the new assistant supposedly drew inspiration for a 2013 movie called "Her" where a man develops a relationship with an AI called Samantha. Huawei wants the AI to keep the conversation going as far as possible.

While major OEMs are poised to develop an AI that can act and think like humans, it also raises concerns about an AI invasion. Tesla co-founder, Elon Musk has an opinion on this. Elon Musk believes that in the age of AI, humans can create "an immortal dictator from which we would never escape." Musk can be seen saying this in the latest documentary called "Do You Trust This Computer?"

The documentary explores the artificial intelligence this time around, something Elon Musk has been very vocal about. In 2017, Musk warned that AI could be responsible for World War III. Later he also suggested the government to regulate the technology as AI could be "the greatest risk we face as a civilization."

In the latest documentary, Musk mentions a terrorizing possibility: The AI built by authoritarian governments could outlive individual leaders or parties, building a permanent state of domination. Considering Russia is already using algorithms to weaken democracies, and China has plans to launch a Social Credit System that will monitor the citizens by 2020, this doesn't seem unreal.

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Well, the future of AI remains to be seen. If major firms continue to build powerful AI systems, we might not be far from an AI invasion.

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