Emotional AI

Before you continue to read about this controversial topic, I would like to ask you some questions. Do you know someone who suffers from depression? I bet your answer is yes, it can be either a friend, a family member or a friend of a friend. What would you recommend them to do? Go see a psychologist? What is the first thing that comes up to your mind when I say emotions? I might not know your specific answer, but I know you eventually thought about the direct relation in between humans and emotions. Could you imagine a robot that can understand your feelings as the same level of a human? It might sound crazy at a first glance, but thanks to EAI it is now a reality.   The Freudian theory states that psychologists can not get emotionally involved with their patients, due to subjectivity and the temptation to provide personal advice. If we further analyze this, we will come to the conclusion that this trait is normal, as it reflects the natural human instinct of being

Over the next years, 3 million workers will be supervised by "robot-bosses".  How does this make you feel? If this sounds alarming, I welcome you to join me on my journey. In this blog, I will explore and share my knowledge and findings of emotional artificial intelligence (EAI).  To better understand the EAI concept, I will start by asking the following: do we have an analytical or social interaction with machines? If you answered analytical - you would have been correct up until now. This is due to the fact that systems and devices could not interpret our expressions and body language.  Now, this has totally changed and social interactions with machines are possible. EAI, also known as affective computing, permits machines to recognize human emotions through the identification of voice inflections and micro expressions. Having a machine that understands, captures, and reacts to emotions increases the effectiveness of the interchange, creating p