Can machines read your emotions?
Computers can beat us in board games, transcribe speech, and instantly identify almost any object. But will future robots go further by learning to figure out what we're feeling? Kostas Karpouzis imagines a future where machines and the people who run them can accurately read our emotional states - and explains how that could allow them to assist us, or manipulate us, at unprecedented scales.
Answer the following questions:
Why are neural networks so dependent on lots of data, processing power, and storage in order to be trained successfully?
Assume that you've trained a neural network to predict the weather. At some point, following a meteorite crash, Europe is covered by clouds of smoke; is your neural network able to adapt to the new situation?
Emotion recognition algorithms have been around since the 1990s; why did it take them so long to become mainstream?
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