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When I got reporter Kate Kay on Zoom, I asked her to engage in a little thought experiment with me.

Okay. You're looking at me via Zoom right now.

Right. Admittedly you are a human, you are not a computer.

But like, what do you see? How do I seem?

Is this a question about what emotion you might be expressing on your face?

Yeah. Right now.

I mean, who knows? I don't know. Honestly, I wouldn't know.

I was asking Kate to try to figure out my emotional state based on my face.

That's because she's written a series of articles for protocol about artificial intelligence,

supposedly learning to do just that.

Take our expressions and micro expressions.

Capture them by a computer vision and then put it through a AI process that spits out some sort of score

regarding whether or not someone's engaged with what's being said in a meeting, in a virtual meeting,

or in a virtual classroom scenario.

That's right. Companies are developing and selling AI products intended to tell your boss

or your teacher how you're feeling.

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