Can A.I. Know What You're Feeling?
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Companies are developing and selling A.I. products intended to tell your boss or your teacher how you're feeling.
Guest: Kate Kaye, reporter for Protocol
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:07.6 | When I got reporter Kate Kay on Zoom, I asked her to engage in a little thought experiment with me. |
| 1:13.6 | Okay, you're looking at me via Zoom right now. Right. Admittedly you are a human, you are not a |
| 1:20.0 | computer. But like, what do you, what do you see? How do I seem? Is this a question about what |
| 1:27.7 | emotion you might be expressing on your face? Yeah. Right now. I mean, who knows? I think that's, |
| 1:36.2 | I don't know. Honestly, I wouldn't know. I was asking Kate to try to figure out my emotional |
| 1:44.8 | state based on my face. That's because she's written a series of articles for protocol about artificial |
| 1:50.6 | intelligence, supposedly learning to do just that. Take our expressions and micro expressions, |
| 1:56.7 | capture them by a computer vision, and then put it through a AI process that spits out some sort of |
| 2:04.6 | score regarding whether or not someone's engaged with what's being said in a meeting, in a virtual |
| 2:10.6 | meeting or in a virtual classroom scenario. That's right. Companies are developing and selling AI |
| 2:18.0 | products intended to tell your boss or your teacher how you're feeling. We're seeing more |
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