Can machines read your emotions? - Kostas Karpouzis
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Computers can beat us in board games, transcribe speech, and instantly identify almost any object. But will future robots go further by learning to figure out what we’re feeling? Kostas Karpouzis imagines a future where machines and the people who run them can accurately read our emotional states — and explains how that could allow them to assist us, or manipulate us, at unprecedented scales.
Assume that you’ve trained a neural network to predict the weather. At some point, following a meteorite crash, Europe is covered by clouds of smoke; is your neural network able to adapt to the new situation?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Kostas Karpouzis
- Director Lasse Rützou Bruntse
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Composer Laura Højberg Kunov
- Sound Designer Tobias Dahl Nielsen
- Narrator Addison Anderson
