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## [MediaLab Berlin](https://www.media.mit.edu/events/mlberlin-signalandnoise/) · Creative AI.Embodied AI

## Work and thoughts resulting of the prototyping week [Signal and Noise](https://www.media.mit.edu/events/mlberlin-signalandnoise/) organized by MIT MediaLab in Berlin, Summer 2018
 

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### What's missing in AI?
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#### A very nice summery written by Stefania Druga with the highlights: [Creative Chaos for Creative AI ](https://blog.goodaudience.com/creative-chaos-for-creative-ai-mit-media-lab-berlin-737579895ccf)

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### What is AI missing?

* **Physical**: Things that we can touch are easier to understand and to connect with
* [Tools](http://cognimates.me) to make it **accessible**: The best way to understand and demystify a new technology is to explore it and build it.
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* emotions are a great way to relate to new things and that it’s easier to understand things we relate to.
* the interaction with an emotional AI is likely to be less alienating.


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### Future developments of the project

* Personality: implementing an [internal state](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine) so the AI develops an individual personality based on its [interactions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning) with the user. Possible implantation:
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* How does my AI interact with yours? Does it feel jealous that yours have more legs or more sensors?



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### Possible use cases in a household environment and envisioned effects

* Helping cementing certain manners like saying *please* or being thankful.
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* Greater likelihood to be positively integrated in the family household
* *Parental outsourcing, want a child but don't want to spend too much time with s/he? An AI can provide the attention you can't.*


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### Resources

Lego WeDo
Scratch-based [Cognimates](cognimates.me)




### Credits


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