Emotional AI could ultimately help your devices understand you better.
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A computer scientist is working to help artificial intelligence (AI) understand human emotions. Experts say emotional AI that understands human emotions could lead to better computing.
“Even if the system didn’t really understand them in the traditional sense, it would have an immense impact on almost every aspect of life,” Ajay Satpute, the director of the Affective and Brain Science Lab at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI, told Lifewire in an email interview. “We could help caregivers understand children. We could help children learn to read emotions. We could accelerate learning in individuals with emotional perception challenges, like autism spectrum disorder.”
Aniket Bera, a computer science professor at Purdue University, is trying to build AI models and systems that are more human-like and better able to interact with humans. His approach is to program machines to incorporate an understanding of nonverbal cues and communication.
