Table of Contents
Foreword Rana el Kaliouby, PhD vii
Preface to the Paperback Edition xi
Introduction xv
A Futurist View xix
Part 1 The Road to Affective Computing
1 The Dawn of Emotional Machines 3
2 How Emotion Bootstrapped the First Technological Revolution 9
3 Building the Future 32
4 Tell Us How You Feel 49
5 Launching the Emotion Economy 63
6 Kismet and the Robots 78
Part 2 The Rise of Emotional Machines
7 The Uncanny Valley of the Dolls 95
8 Learning Affectively 108
9 Marching into a Minefield 122
10 Sentimental Fools 136
11 Who Will Really Care? 148
12 Mixing It Up 161
Part 3 The Future of Artificial Emotional Intelligence
13 The Love Machines 179
14 AI in the Family 194
15 FeelGood, Inc. 209
16 Window in the Dark: AIs in Fiction 225
17 For Better and For Worse 240
18 Will AIs Dream of Electric Sheep? 260
Acknowledgments 275
Notes 279
Index 301