Re:Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions?
by tablespoon on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:24PM
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> So any AI products designed to supposedly recognize emotions are necessarily snake oil. I assume they are reliably measuring facial expressions, but facial expressions simply cannot be mapped to actual emotions in any kind of reliable way in the real world.
Unfortunately snake oil is a profitable business, and unreliability isn't going to stop people from selling and using these systems.
It's going to be like AI-driven captchas [1], the people subjected to these systems are going to have to learn to give the systems the answers they want, even if it's obvious they're incorrect. You'll have students concentrating on expressing an "attentive" face rather than concentrating on the material.
[1] Yes, I'm talking about you reCAPTCHA. Highway buzz strips aren't crosswalks.
Unfortunately snake oil is a profitable business, and unreliability isn't going to stop people from selling and using these systems.
It's going to be like AI-driven captchas [1], the people subjected to these systems are going to have to learn to give the systems the answers they want, even if it's obvious they're incorrect. You'll have students concentrating on expressing an "attentive" face rather than concentrating on the material.
[1] Yes, I'm talking about you reCAPTCHA. Highway buzz strips aren't crosswalks.