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Oct 2020
24m 38s

In Machines We Trust: AI Reads Human Emo...

Mit Technology Review
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AI can read your emotional response to advertising and your facial expressions in a job interview. But if it can already do all this, what happens next? In part two of a series on emotion AI, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review explore the implications of how it’s used and where it’s heading in the future. We meet:  Shruti Sharma, VSCO  Ga ... Show More
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