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Emotionally Aware Apps That Respond To Feelings Are On the Horizon
bigwophh writes: Machine learning has helped a multitude of different technologies become a reality, including emotion-detection. Most examples to date have been rather simple, such as being able to detect a smile or a frown. But with today's super-fast computers, and even mobile devices, we're now able to detect emotion with far greater accuracy and nuance. Facial recognition expert Rana el Kaliouby recently gave a talk at TED to highlight just how accurate emotion-detection has become, and depending on your perspective, the result is either amazing, or downright scary. To accurately detect someone's emotion, Rana's software detects eight different factors, which include frowning, showing disgust, engaged, and raised eyebrows, among other things. Through research with this software, a couple of interesting factoids are revealed. In the United States, women are 40% more likely to smile than men. But the technology is ultimately destined for software that will detect the user's emotion and react accordingly.
Well then, respond to THIS you APPLIANCE FROM HELL
*flips off monitor*
*flips off computer*
*flips off facial recognition cam*
*unplugs entire system from the wall*
*goes outside to work in the garden*
*later, sips a cold beer and falls asleep in the hammock, listening to the sound of chirping birds*
You can clearly see that "smile" is fake, but the thingamabob happily accepts it as joyous smile. Now, if it could detect the frown on my face from seeing these stupid, fluff-piece spamticles, on the other hand...
"What's Wrong?"
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Emotions are an important part of becoming more human.
Great. All of our cutting-edge communications technology has brought use the 21st-century mood ring.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
Outside of a conversational AI, I don't want my software to work differently depending on what mood it thinks I'm in. For every app that would actually benefit from this I foresee a hundred 'Clippy's.
'You seem frustrated! Let's start a tutorial of my basic features...'
'Hey—did you know you're angry? Here's some cute kittens that are sure to cheer you up!'
'I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over...'
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
As in, 'you seem sad: here, take a look at your Amazon wishlist. Remember, shopping makes you happy. Believe me, I know. '
... or respond to these things.
these companies keep trying to turn technology into pets. Like what i want when I buy a cellphone is a flat kitten that I can use to order pizza.
I'm not some ignorant savage that flies in the silver sky birds and speaks with magic rocks. Enough you arrogant pricks.
yes yes... there are some profoundly stupid people but can we agree they don't actually matter because they don't actually advance the species at all. They're cannon fodder. Make technology for the people please.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
I recently determined that the problem with our ERP software is that it's not getting laid enough. Nothing makes it more difficult to concentrate on processing all those transactions than being all pent up like that. So on the minus side there's going to be more competition for Charlene in Marketing (And you KNOW the ERP software is a much smoother talker than you are) but on the plus side, we should start seeing a couple hundred thousand extra transactions per second as soon as this software gets installed!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
When will these bullshit stories that predict things that are rather obviously not going to materialize or at least will never work well, ever stop?
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Finally, a help desk that understands it's emotionally needy customers! I can already imagine an "asshole" warning light to the teleworker's customer service station for incoming calls about missing postal packages..
Now computers can react poorly to me as well.
I wonder if they'll be able to sense the level of contempt I have for them.
Remember, these aren't "apps" as in applications you use to achieve some life goal. Like the click through TOSes that you agree to, these will be one-sided, spying malware which you can't say "no" to because on the other side will be resources society now expects you to know about or use, FB being the classic example of such malware.
What tech companies have discovered is that the 20% of thoughtful, skeptical people in the population can be forced into submission by creating a world whose parameters and nature is defined by whatever the oblivious 80% will swallow, which is pretty much anything.
I for one welcome Genuine People Personalities. Don't want to give the complaints department any business, do we?
Individuals won't be able to do this themselves, so, it will be done by some corporations servers, not some app, meaning you won't own your own data.
I'm curious how they'll try to sell this. Suicide prevention? Better targeted ads? Both at the same time?
Totally unrelated, but how will it work when a lot of people routinely get intoxicated, either by alcohol or mild narcotics. Even strong tea, coffee, energy drinks etc alter these states ...
That might not be the best way to describe a person in this internet age....
It looks like some of us are trying to "Oprah-fy the computer.
Sorry dear lady, I'm not going to take the tape off my camera lenses either. That's a security issue.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
You sure look mad Bro. But seriously, all Ms. Kaliouby has proven is that a probably nervous audience member can fake out the software.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Angry - if you are making the user angry, figure out why and make them less angry.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If it starts asking if you and your wife are an effective team, you answer YES .
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... will that stop the software from sucking so much?
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, anyone?
"...although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move."
Auto insurance industry will be all over this technology. Install it in every customers car so they can detect car jackers. Just as soon as they can accurately distinguish orgasm faces from great pain or great relief.
Human Rights, Article 12: Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
re? Will it turn off when it detects I want to kill it?
Don't want my computer to start discussing my relationship with it
OR
to tell me to stop yelling at it
OR
my browsing habits
OR
*Lower difficulty* *Make mission less frustrating* when I'm about to ragequit
The things that makes me happiest are efficiency and lack of complications. That is, I like it when I drive to work and there's no traffic and I don't hit any red lights. Or when I write code that just works with little or no revision required. I like it when things go according to plan.
An app that does exactly what I want with little delay, crashing, or complication makes me happier, and an app that doesn't do what I want lowers my happiness. I don't want sympathy or empathy when I'm unhappy; I want things to work. There's no need to respond to my emotional state when you can focus on making it better by doing what I want, regardless of my emotional state.
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If the prediction from these apps are as accurate as the predictions from Google search, I want no part of it.
Emotion is not broadcast by the face. This has been known for a long time. Here's a clever study that shows people attend less to the face than the body when trying to guess someone's emotion.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/30/...