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How we express our emotions will change and this will be useless
Unlikely; emotional expressions seem to be innate and hard-wired into the brain, hence the fundamental similarity between emotional expressions of groups separated for tens of thousands of years.
Nope. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/emotional-...
As someone from a less represented group in tech, I would want to know exactly who is classifying emotions present on the dataset. I don’t want to be mistaken as feeling angry anytime I don’t look happy or sad. There’s definitely unconscious bias to how certain people’s feelings are interpreted that lead to inaccurate perceptions.
Note: as long as you are well represented in the dataset your representation in tech won’t matter.
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Give me a break. People don't use prosthetic limbs as a tool to decide if someone is lying to the police or if they should get the job. Your analogy is less than adequate.
Can you please edit swipes like "Give me a break" out of your posts to HN? Your comment would be fine with just the other two sentences. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Can you please edit swipes like "Give me a break" out of your posts to HN? Your comment would be fine with just the other two sentences. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Seriously? What pedantic nonsense. It's a minor, hardly offensive phrase designed to add some emotional color to comments. We're not robots here. Many people write comments with expletives (and don't get downvoted) along with all sorts of things, but you fixate here on "give me a break".
Emotional color is welcome in HN comments, but reflexive indignation is a different thing. For the sake of the commons here, we all need to work on containing the petty anger that flares up instantly and is all too easy to vent onto the internet.
When I first read that some retailers (Walgreens) were putting face-scanning emotion profiling tech in their stores, I couldn't help but think about how many false readings would come from people who have resting bitch face.† Then I thought it would be awesome to go to Dallas or some other place where this is common and flood the stores with these people, making the technology useless. † https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi…
So I guess with my anxiety disorder even computers will think “I have something to hide” because I look nervous. Jesus christ this world is a dystopia.
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> That we're even talking about restricting tech that tells us real things about the world indicates that society's internal contradictions on certain subjects have reached a breaking point and that we need to reevaluate certain previously-inviolable assumptions. I agree with your general point, but TFA quotes a co-founder of "leading research centre" saying, > "At the same time as these technologies are being rolled…
> large numbers of studies are showing that there is... no substantial evidence that people have this consistent relationship between the emotion that you are feeling and the way that your face looks. Total, absolute bullshit --- which is exactly what I'd expect from AI Now. Everyday experience shows that we can read people's feelings via their faces. (Yes, deception is possible, but the possibility of putting on a f…
I don't know anything about them before today.
Did you see https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snake... which they link to in their report? It seems pretty solid to me.
> Everyday experience shows that we can read people's feelings via their faces.
Yeah, humans can, sometimes, but that doesn't mean these systems can.
> Astrology doesn't work either and we don't have to go around banning that.
First off, astrology does work, depending on the astrologer.
Second, yes, if people were selling astrology to HR departments to screen candidates I think we should ban that.
So I guess with my anxiety disorder even computers will think “I have something to hide” because I look nervous. Jesus christ this world is a dystopia.
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> Emotion-detection tech is a prosthetic for autistic people Never heard of it being used that way. Not sure how current tools would work for that. Examples?
AFAIK it is not yet used this way in practice, but I see no reason it couldn't be integrated into AR glasses. This would allow autistic people to interact socially on an equal footing with neurotypical people.