Maybe we understand different things by “emotional intelligence”. To me, this is just the ability to correctly infer the emotional state of the interlocutor, based on the context, text messages that they send, and the pauses between messages.
I don’t think this requires any breakthroughs in AI. GPT-4 is basically able to do this already, if we take out of the question the task of “baseline adjustment” (different people have different conversational styles, some are cheerful and use smile emojis profusely, others are the opposite, use smileys only to mark strong emotions) and the task of intelligent summarisation of the context of the dialogue. The latter are exactly the types of tasks I expect AI romance tech to be ironing out in the next few years.
Detecting emotions from the video of human face or the recording of their speech is in some ways even simpler, there are apparently already simple supervised ML systems that do this. But I don’t expect AI partners to be in a video dialogue with users yet because I don’t think video generation will become sufficiently fast for realtime video, yet. So I don’t assume that AI will receive the stream of user’s video and audio, either.
So, why not pay young women surrogate mother rates for children (about 100k)? And allow the state to take primary custody so that young women can finish school/start early career/have more children. (the father would be whoever the woman chooses and would not owe child support conditional on the woman giving up primary custody)
In general, paying people for parenting (I would emphasise this instead of pure “childbirth”), i.e., considering parenting a “job”, I think is a reasonable idea and perhaps, soon this will be inevitable in developed countries with plummeting fertility rates and increasing efficiency of labour (the latter due to AI and automation).
The caveat is that the policy that you proposed will cost the government a lot of money initially, while the policy that I proposed costs nothing.
Maybe we understand different things by “emotional intelligence”. To me, this is just the ability to correctly infer the emotional state of the interlocutor, based on the context, text messages that they send, and the pauses between messages.
I don’t think this requires any breakthroughs in AI. GPT-4 is basically able to do this already, if we take out of the question the task of “baseline adjustment” (different people have different conversational styles, some are cheerful and use smile emojis profusely, others are the opposite, use smileys only to mark strong emotions) and the task of intelligent summarisation of the context of the dialogue. The latter are exactly the types of tasks I expect AI romance tech to be ironing out in the next few years.
Detecting emotions from the video of human face or the recording of their speech is in some ways even simpler, there are apparently already simple supervised ML systems that do this. But I don’t expect AI partners to be in a video dialogue with users yet because I don’t think video generation will become sufficiently fast for realtime video, yet. So I don’t assume that AI will receive the stream of user’s video and audio, either.
In general, paying people for parenting (I would emphasise this instead of pure “childbirth”), i.e., considering parenting a “job”, I think is a reasonable idea and perhaps, soon this will be inevitable in developed countries with plummeting fertility rates and increasing efficiency of labour (the latter due to AI and automation).
The caveat is that the policy that you proposed will cost the government a lot of money initially, while the policy that I proposed costs nothing.