{"id":219748,"date":"2021-04-06T00:57:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/can-ai-read-your-emotions-try-it-for-yourself\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T00:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:57:17","slug":"can-ai-read-your-emotions-try-it-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/can-ai-read-your-emotions-try-it-for-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"#Can AI read your emotions? Try it for yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Can AI read your emotions? Try it for yourself<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                                Emotion recognition AI is bunk.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, AI that recognizes human sentiment and emotion <em>can<\/em> be very useful. For example, it can help <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/drowsiness-detection-with-machine-learning-765a16ca208a\">identify when drivers are falling asleep<\/a> behind the wheel. But what it cannot do, is discern how a human being is actually feeling by the expression on their face.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to take my word for it, you can try it yourself <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/emojify.info\/menu\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dovetail Labs, a scientific research and consultancy company, recently created a website that explains how modern \u201cemotion recognition\u201d systems built on deep learning work.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will emotional recognition technology &#039;emojify&#039; you?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/785eNqM3X8E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nTypically when companies do stuff like this, the point is to show off their products so you\u2019ll want to purchase something from them. But here, Dovetail Labs is demonstrating how awful emotion recognition is at recognizing human emotion.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a bit reticent to enable your webcam for access (or just don\u2019t feel like trying it out on yourself), take a gander at the featured image for this article above. I assure you, the picture\u00a0on the right is not my \u201csad\u201d face, no matter what the AI says.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s bothersome because, as far as AI is concerned, I have a pretty easy to read face. But, as Dovetail Labs explains in the above video, AI doesn\u2019t actually read our face.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1345512 aligncenter lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"923\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/emojification.jpg\" data-lazy=\"true\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/emojification.jpg 1640w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/emojification-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/emojification-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/emojification-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/emojification-796x448.jpg 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/emojification-1592x896.jpg 1592w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/emojification-1200x675.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Instead of understanding the vast spectrum of human emotion and expression, it basically reduces whatever it perceives we\u2019re doing with our face to the AI equivalent of an emoji symbol.<\/p>\n<p>And, despite it being incredibly basic, it still suffers from the same biases as all facial recognition AI: emotion recognition systems are racist.<\/p>\n<p>Per the video:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent study has shown that these systems read the faces of Black men as more angry than the faces of white men, no matter what their expression.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a big deal for everyone. Companies across the world use emotion recognition systems for hiring, law enforcement agencies use them to profile potential threats, and they\u2019re even being developed for medical purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Unless emotion recognition works the same across demographics, their use is harmful \u2013 even in so-called \u201chuman in the loop\u201d scenarios.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Further reading: Why using AI to screen job <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>licants is almost always a bunch of crap]<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\">\n                                    Published April 5, 2021 \u2014 21:57 UTC<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=378011798897423&amp;version=v2.6\" id=\"socialSrcFacebook\" type=\"text\/template\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Try it for yourself&#8221; Emotion recognition AI is bunk. Don\u2019t get me wrong, AI that recognizes human sentiment and emotion can be very useful. For example, it can help identify when drivers are falling asleep behind the wheel. But what it cannot do, is discern how a human being is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/neural?filter_last=1&fit=1280,640&url=https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/emotionrecognition.jpg&signature=8e47404f6c6ff6fdb04a59b488d91cb6","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}