Feb 21, 2020 07:04 AM
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/21...echnology/
EXCERPT: Emotion analytics – using AI to analyse facial expressions and infer feelings – is set to become a $25 billion business by 2023. But the very notion of emotion analytics is emotionally bankrupt and dangerous.
The next time you go for a job interview and there is a video-interview component ... An AI system could be cross-referencing your face and your body language with traits that it considers to be correlated with job success. [...] There’s only one tiny flaw: it is utter nonsense. Emotion recognition is snake oil, not science. AI systems, used correctly, could be extremely useful ... But sadly, so much AI research is driven by a diminished view of human consciousness and emotions.
When humans navigate feelings, they use an immense amount of information: from facial expressions and body language to cultural references, context, moods and more. But the AI systems trying to do the same thing tend to focus mainly on the face. This is a big flaw, according to Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist ... and co-author of a damning study on the claims being made about ‘emotion recognition’
[...] Human emotions are complex. Reducing them to algorithmic certainties denigrates human experience. This is very dangerous. ... Nevertheless, career consultants are cashing in by training new graduates and job-seekers on how to interview with an algorithm. ... That bastion of anti-democracy, the EU, is reportedly trialling software which can purportedly detect deception through an analysis of micro-expressions. ... If emotion recognition becomes widespread ... The dystopian implications are very real. (MORE - details)
EXCERPT: Emotion analytics – using AI to analyse facial expressions and infer feelings – is set to become a $25 billion business by 2023. But the very notion of emotion analytics is emotionally bankrupt and dangerous.
The next time you go for a job interview and there is a video-interview component ... An AI system could be cross-referencing your face and your body language with traits that it considers to be correlated with job success. [...] There’s only one tiny flaw: it is utter nonsense. Emotion recognition is snake oil, not science. AI systems, used correctly, could be extremely useful ... But sadly, so much AI research is driven by a diminished view of human consciousness and emotions.
When humans navigate feelings, they use an immense amount of information: from facial expressions and body language to cultural references, context, moods and more. But the AI systems trying to do the same thing tend to focus mainly on the face. This is a big flaw, according to Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist ... and co-author of a damning study on the claims being made about ‘emotion recognition’
[...] Human emotions are complex. Reducing them to algorithmic certainties denigrates human experience. This is very dangerous. ... Nevertheless, career consultants are cashing in by training new graduates and job-seekers on how to interview with an algorithm. ... That bastion of anti-democracy, the EU, is reportedly trialling software which can purportedly detect deception through an analysis of micro-expressions. ... If emotion recognition becomes widespread ... The dystopian implications are very real. (MORE - details)