Can Books Teach Machines to Read People?

Source papers:

Using Stories to Teach Human Values to Artificial Agents: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/aaai-ethics16.pdf

Mining Human Behaviors from Fiction to Power Interactive Systems: http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06977

Why do I feel this is like Heinlein's Mike (AI) where it got most of his ideas about humans from fiction? It's odd to see art preceding science's attempt to grasp such a problem.

Lol have an upvote for the title alone