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Rosiland Picard's group at the Media Lab have been working on figuring out what people are feeling for 20 years, and they've gotten very good at it. You don't need to know what boredom is to recognize bored faces. Kismet proved you don't need to do much to make the right expression in response. Being able to fake it well enough is as good as it gets in AI. I go back and forth on whether faking it well enough is really very different from the real thing. I fake the right facial expression all the time, after all. I'm pretty sure everyone does.