Artificial intelligence (AI) may soon know more about you than you think.
[Rant] Can AI read your emotions? (No, but…)
A startup called Hume AI claims to use algorithms to measure emotions from facial, vocal and verbal expressions. It is one of a growing number of companies claiming to be able to read human emotions using computers. But some experts say the concept raises privacy concerns.
“Whoever is running these systems and platforms is going to have a lot of information about individuals,” Bob Bilbruck, a tech startup advisor, told Lifewire in an email interview. “They’re going to be able to create profiles of these people that can be used for financial gain, control over outcomes, or potentially even more malicious macro tracking of people and society.”
Hume says the secret to teaching AI to read emotions is big data. The company says it trains its AI on huge datasets from North America, Africa, Asia and South America.
