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Re:Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions? by Fernicia on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:50PM (#26728339)
If you agree that AI can reach human levels of accuracy is your point that we shouldn't ever try to assess someone's emotion in decision making, whether it's a person or machine deciding?
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Re:Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions? by jcelerier on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @02:09PM (#26728625)
> is your point that we shouldn't ever try to assess someone's emotion in decision making, whether it's a person or machine deciding?

isn't that a pretty sane and basic assumption ?

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Re:Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions? by Rule35 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:16PM (#26743221)
No, I think I'll still assess the hitchhikers I pick up.

Seriously though, especially with individuals, why shouldn't you use all the information available, if it produces results even an iota better than blind acceptance (and for most people, their empathic-sense does)?

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Re:Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions? by crazygringo on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:19PM (#26729706)
In the context of labeling emotions based on context-free still images of strangers, then yes humans are so inaccurate at this it would generally be a bad idea to assess emotions.

In the context of real life, where we know people, are interacting with them, and are reading cues from their whole body and their movement over time, then we're much better at assessing emotions and we'd be pretty foolish to ignore emotional signals.

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