#affectiva

Hello! We are officially launching a THING. It’s going to be a weekly roundup about what’s happening in artificial intelligence and how it affects you. Read more…

Emotional AI: How Affective Computing is Transforming Human-Machine Interaction

You walk into your living room, Alexa dims the lights, lowers the temperature, and says: “You look really sad today. Would you like me to play Adele for you?” This could be a reality in a few years. In this blog, we’ll look into how companies are using facial recognition to read people’s emotions, exploring both the opportunities and dangers of this emerging AI application. This is part of the…

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Smart Eye, which develops AI-based eye-tracking monitoring systems for automakers, acquires emotion-detection software startup Affectiva for $73.5M  —  Smart Eye, the publicly traded Swedish company that supplies driver monitoring systems for a dozen automakers, has acquired emotion-detection … Source link

Is the Affective Computing Market Likely to Exhibit Health Growth During 2019-2025? | Ongoing Study Reveals Key Insights

The report offers a complete research study of the global Affective Computing Market that includes accurate forecasts and analysis at global, regional, and country levels. It provides a comprehensive view of the global Affective Computing marketand detailed value chain analysis to help players to closely understand important changes in business activities observed across the industry. It also…

Le PNUD rejoint les géants de la technologie dans un partenariat sur l’IA

NEW YORK – Le PNUD adhère au Partenariat sur l’Intelligence Artificielle (IA), un consortium d’entreprises, d’universitaires et d’ONG travaillant pour que l’IA soit développée de manière sûre, éthique et transparente. Fondé en 2016 par les géants de la technologie – Amazon, DeepMind / Google, Facebook, IBM et Microsoft – Il a depuis été rejoint par des leaders du secteur tels que Accenture,…

In this edition, the top news starts with:

A South African university is working on an AI system designed to analyze causation.

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-artificial-intelligence-causation.html

Ushering in the police state and big brother, the next frontier is police and surveillance drones.  Look to the AI Machine Lord overwatch in your neighborhood for a safer and more secure society…

https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/axon-and-dji-are-teaming-up-to-make-surveillance-drones-and-the-possibilities-are-frightening.html

A confused peasant seems to think he can go up against the great and almighty Google… something about open source and Google patenting it…

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-says-google-is-patenting-work-he-put-in-the-public-domain/

CA Research Scientists are helping the machine overlords take humanity by surprise, by telling everyone real AGI is decades away…

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/ai-matching-human-intelligence-still-decades-away-ca-research-scientists/articleshow/64527972.cms

The story of how the DOD and Google got together over AI was released

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/06/heres-how-google-pitched-ai-tools-special-operators-last-month/148873/

Affectiva is pushing the state of the art in emotion recognition by machine learning from human values…

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/affective-computing/

Hitachi rules Bing AI ads and even shows up on Google AI ads but IBM Watson still tops Google.

Lastly, the Singularity Index or S.I. is down slightly at 1566.34, proving we are going no where fast…

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