In “Still Life With Bones,” the anthropologist Alexa Hagerty describes how she learned to see the dead with a forensic eye and to listen to the living.
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As AI-powered software that can identify human emotions becomes more commonplace, a new browser games wants to illustrate the limits of the technology. Spotted by
The Verge, the Emojify Project was created by a
multidisciplinary team led by University of Cambridge professor Alexa Hagerty. You’ll find it over on
emojify.info. It will ask you to look at your computer’s web camera and try to produce six different emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust and anger. As you play the game, what you’ll notice is that it’s easy to fool the software. For example, you can fake a smile to trick it into thinking that you’re happy. Ultimately, that’s the point of the experience.