Overall, these zero shot methods do not perform nearly as well humans nor models tuned on the training data from EMOTIC (Emotions in Context). But there appears to be promise in linking vision with language to account for both affective and cognitive empathy
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CLIP vs Captioning+GPT: Vision Model Comparison on Emotions
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We compare CLIP (vision only) to Captioning+GPT (vision + reasoning) over 4714 images from the Emotions in Context dataset and observe a small but noticeable difference.
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CLIP Vision Model Bias: Skin Recognition and Context Understanding
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Some interesting examples: In this image and a few others, CLIP appears to associate bare skin with "embarrassment". LLAVA and Captions + GPT don't, seeming to reason over the location and context.
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Emotions Fast and Slow: Multimodal Theory of Mind Framework
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New preprint on Emotions Fast and Slow! How might we perform emotional theory of mind in an image? We propose combining fast visual processing (akin to affective empathy) with slower linguistic processing (akin to cognitive empathy).
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Defining AI Ethics: Treating People as Ends Not Means
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I thought it had to do with whether you negatively impact a person as a part of obtaining gain for yourself. This definition suggests it's more about treating people as humans. https://
bbc.co.uk/ethics/introdu
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Who Defines AI Social Contract? Lobbyists and Policy
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But yeah one of the drawbacks of SCT is the question of "who defines the social contract?" Like that is an interesting question in the AI acts coming out, e.g. lobbyists and their interests
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Rights and Rules: Duties Corresponding to Digital Protections
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Maybe one way to think about it is that rules and rights going hand in hand. When you have rights, usually there are some rules/duties that correspond. E.g. the right to privacy, then there are some rules that can help uphold those rights, which may be implicit?
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Hobbes on Rules Governance and Social Contract Theory
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I don't think it specifically talks about the natural state of things, rather Hobbes argues that rules are necessary to live in a society, and as citizens we agree to 1) establishment of a set of moral rules to govern us and 2) the government can enforce them.
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Emotional Empathy Deficit and Psychopathy: New Research Findings
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Also, I've known that lack of emotional empathy is associated with psychopathy, but this is new: https://
psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-28
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Canada’s AIDA: Artificial Intelligence and Data Act Overview
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What about AIDA? https://
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/innovatio
n-better-canada/en/artificial-intelligence-and-data-act
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ised-isde.canada.ca/site/innovatio
n-better-canada/en/artificial-intelligence-and-data-act-aida-companion-document
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