Re:Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions?
by crazygringo on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:40PM
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Actual experts today disagree with Paul Ekman -- the book I linked to in my root comment provides an extensive discussion of this.
Ekman was at the forefront of creating facial emotions expression research, but while I do believe he convincingly showed that there are basic instinctual, stereotypical, cross-cultural facial expressions, the field now generally accepts that FACS coding does not map reliably to emotions in real-life contexts.
In other words, just because a smile is a cross-cultural instinctual display of happiness does not mean a given individual who is happy will be smiling, or that a given individual who is smiling will be happy.
Ekman was at the forefront of creating facial emotions expression research, but while I do believe he convincingly showed that there are basic instinctual, stereotypical, cross-cultural facial expressions, the field now generally accepts that FACS coding does not map reliably to emotions in real-life contexts.
In other words, just because a smile is a cross-cultural instinctual display of happiness does not mean a given individual who is happy will be smiling, or that a given individual who is smiling will be happy.