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  Can We Teach AI desire? The Blurred Line Between Human and Machine Emotion Image by  StarFlames  from  Pixabay Picture this: You're locked in an intense chess match. Your opponent moves their queen to block your attacking bishop, saving their king from imminent danger. When you make this same strategic move, you'd say you acted out of concern, worry, perhaps even a touch of fear for your king's safety. But what if your opponent isn't human—what if it's a computer? Did the machine "worry" about its king? Did it "desire" to win? Or are we simply projecting human emotions onto cold, calculating algorithms? This question sits at the heart of one of the most profound debates in artificial intelligence: Can machines truly experience emotions, or are they merely sophisticated mimics performing an elaborate dance of programmed responses? The Chess Paradox: When Machines Mirror Our Motivations Chess offers us a perfect window into this puzzle. When...

The Harmful Side of "These Things Aren't for Me" It's never as complicated as we think, and why representation matters. Attending the IEEE/ACM CHASE 2025 conference on connected health peeled away a veil of naivety for me. As someone from Africa, I used to read about these people who publish papers and attend such conferences, thinking they were geniuses, next-level humans who knew things we didn't or operated on a level close to alien super-geniuses. But one thing attending this week's event showed me was that they are just people like you and me, doing the same things you did in class for your undergraduate, high school, or PhD. The only difference is they show up. Sitting in that room, I realized something, and I'm going to speak from a Black African perspective. I had never understood what they meant when they said representation matters, but I understand it more than ever now. The room was filled mainly with Asian people and a few whites. Now, we all ...

My first academic conference shattered a myth, and I finally understood why representation isn’t just a buzzword.  The Wake-Up Call I recently attended the IEEE/ACM CHASE 2025 conference on connected health. As someone from Africa, I used to imagine presenters at these events as superhuman geniuses – aliens operating on a level I could never reach. Their papers seemed like cryptic manuscripts; their presence felt untouchable. But after three days immersed in this world, my naivety was peeled away like old paint. The Revelation The room was filled with brilliant minds – 80% Asian, 20% White, and a scattering of others. Including me, there were nine Black attendees among 140 participants. As I listened to presentations, something struck me:  Their work was identical to what I’d done in my graduate classes.  The same formula: Pick a topic  (like we do for projects). Find a dataset  (hello, Kaggle!). Identify a problem  (standard research 101). Propose a soluti...