Could emotions be the key to real artificial intelligence?

Abstract

[Abstract]: With the recent resurgence of investigation into the realm of emotion theories from AI researcher's point of view, it is important to take a step back and evaluate ways in which these new theories and models could enrich the AI domain. Much scientific evidence has come to light that emotions go far beyond their traditional stereotypical affects of irrationality and illogical behaviour in humans to be the foundation of rational thinking, perception, learning and other intelligent cognitive functions. This paper briefly looks at the advantages of affective computing and introduces an emotionally motivated agent architecture capable of synthesizing emotions for given situations.