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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.
Discover the stupidity of AI emotion recognition with this little browser game
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Tech companies don’t just want to identify you using facial recognition they also want to read your emotions with the help of AI. For many scientists, though, claims about computers’ ability to understand emotion are fundamentally flawed, and a little in-browser web game built by researchers from the University of Cambridge aims to show why.
Head over to emojify.info, and you can see how your emotions are “read” by your computer via your webcam. The game will challenge you to produce six different emotions (happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, and anger), which the AI will attempt to identify. However, you’ll probably find that the software’s readings are far from accurate, often interpreting even exaggerated expressions as “neutral.” And even when you do produce a smile that convinces your computer that
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Technology uses artificial intelligence to determine how a person is feeling
Algorithms scan a person s face and find emotion on its physical appearance
It is highly controversial but is already in place in some parts of the world
Game is designed to draw attention to its shortcoming, including inaccuracy and a limited range of emotions it can pick up