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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
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Growing
Artificial
Make
Empathy
Mirror
Elicit
Mirrors
Quiver
Fast
Neurons
Intelligence
Facial
Whose
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