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How Synthetic Senses Might Help Future Sexbots Develop Emotional Intelligence

By Stephanie Smith
February 15, 2024
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Our synthetic companions may soon be able to feel us—emotionally as well as physically

In the quest to develop emotionally intelligent robots, input matters. After all, how could an artificial intelligence ever hope to understand us if it can’t sense the world around it like we can?

In this spirit, Saptarshi Das, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, has decided to focus his research on artificially replicating our sense of taste.

With a goal, as he puts it in a recent university press release, to see “How could we bring the emotional part of intelligence to AI.” 

Tasting the flavors of life

To accomplish their task, Das and his colleagues developed tiny chemical sensors that were able to locate and identify specific molecules emanating from samples of food.  

Once detected, they were interpreted by a complex algorithm just as our taste buds send neurochemical signals to our minds.  

Das’s system can currently recognize five basic tastes: salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami. With some refinements, Das says they may be able to train an artificially intelligent wine taster superior to any human wine taster and who’ll never get tired—or drunk. 

What is emotional intelligence?  

According to Psychology Today, emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and identify emotions in others.  

It generally involves three factors: the identification of specific emotions, the ability to use them for problem-solving, and managing their effects—including reacting to other people’s emotions.

A CMSWire article explains, “Emotionally intelligent AI refers to AI systems that can understand, recognize, and respond to human emotions. This is a challenging task, but it is one that is essential for creating AI systems that can truly interact with humans in a natural and meaningful way.”

Does input from the five senses equal emotions? 

While current-generation artificial companions can see and hear, their ability to touch, taste, and smell currently remains limited.  

But that is steadily changing. Just as Das and Yoshikazu Kobayashi in Japan and Jung Seung Lee in South Korea are developing synthetic taste components, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have created a soft, stretchy skin fitted with sensors allowing AI-driven robots to sense when they touch or are touched.  

While progress in building synthetic senses is being made, we’ve yet to see a system capable of integrating the full range of human senses. However, that might change in the not-too-distant future as more and more work is done in the field. 

Tasting tomorrow’s pleasures

Having access to something akin to biological senses could theoretically help AI-equipped synthetic companions develop something akin to lifelike human feelings.  

If so, we might be able to share our lives with emotionally intelligent sexbots that can identify not just our physical needs but our emotional ones as well—and through this, may also encourage both humans and synthetics alike to be better, more sexually fulfilled people. 

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Stephanie Smith

Stephanie Smith, PhD., (she/her) is a Master Gardener who was born in Dallas, Texas, longer ago than she cares to mention. Stephanie began gardening as soon as she could stick an onion start in the ground. Her father taught her to grow things to eat, and that is her specialty. She is a member of the Texas Master Gardeners Association and the Dallas County Master Gardener Association. She has advanced training in growing vegetables and entomology. She was awarded 2014 Master Gardner of the Year for Hunt County, Texas.

Stephanie was first published by a national magazine in 1990 and has since been published in several periodicals. Gardening articles have appeared in 903 Magazine, LocalProfile, and the Greenville Herald Banner, among numerous other places. Articles and technical papers in psychology make up the balance of her periodical publications.

Dr. Smith received a B.S. in psychology from Texas Christian University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology from Texas A&M University. She has done research on survivors of sexual abuse, has taken classes on sexuality and minorities, and is interested in helping individuals find a fulfilling life, including their sex life.
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