emotions

Inside Out protagonist Riley is turning 13—and the emotions we got to know in Pixar’s 2015 coming-of-age hit get fresh company in the sequel. In the latest trailer ahead of Inside Out 2's June 14 release, we meet Anxiety, Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment... all crucial components of the middle-school experience.Oscar Issac on How Hope Plays into Leo's ArcThe original emotions include Joy (voice of Amy Poehler), Anger (Lewis Black), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Tony Hale, replacing the original film’s Bill Hader), and…

Affective computing is transforming the way machines understand and interact with human emotions, integrating computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. With advancements in emotion recognition, ethical practices, and immersive technologies, this field is set to revolutionize interactions across healthcare, customer service, and virtual reality. Credit: SciTechDaily.comA comprehensive review covers both the progress made and future trends in the field of affective computing.Imagine a world where your smartphone can…

Emotions-in-the-LoopExploring the Legal Framework for Emotion in Emotion Recognition TechImage by Comuzi / © BBC / Better Images of AI / Mirror D / CC-BY 4.0Recently I have started writing the series Emotions-in-the-Loop, where in the pilot (“Analyzing the Life of (Scanned) Jane”) I imagined an ultimate personal assistant interconnected with various personal devices and equipped with multiple emotion recognition systems. The reasons I wrote the first admittedly very sci-fi-like essay were:Having some fun before tangling…

Jorge Fresneda (left) and a student demonstrate an EEG headset. Credit: NJIT Machines still can't think, but now they can validate your feelings, based on new research from New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Jorge Fresneda. Fresneda started his career as a chemist and then became an expert in neuroanalytics. He studies how…

Unlike traditional large language models in AI, Tong Tong possesses the ability to independently assign tasks to herself, which makes it much closer to Iron Man’s Jarvis than any other AI bots we have had. Representational Image. Image credit: Marvel Studios…

Both the donation number and amount are influenced by emotional and contextual cues derived from the disease relief projects on a fundraising website. Images and textual data from 1,763 projects were assessed to determine how positive and negative emotions, and external contextual cues factored in donation behavior on the Tencent Gongyi platform in China. Credit: Journal of Social Computing, Tsinghua University Press The…

Music evokes similar emotions and bodily sensations in Western and Asian listeners. Credit: University of Turku A new study of the Turku PET Center in Finland has shown that music evokes similar emotions and bodily sensations around the world. Music can be felt directly in the body. When we hear our favorite catchy song, we are overcome with the urge to move to…

I love the premise of the Ahead: Emotions Coach app. It promises to teach you all of the things you never learned about emotions and wish you did, comparing the style to Duolingo. "The Duolingo for emotional intelligence," the description on the Apple App Store reads. But what does that mean and does it work? Simply put, emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of your emotions, express them and handle them. This might sound simple, but so often we're taught to suppress emotions as kids, which can then have a…

Imagine what it would be like to have a robot friend that can do things like take selfies, toss a ball, eat popcorn and play air guitar? Well, you might not have to wait too long.Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a robot that can do all that and more, thanks to the power of GPT-4, the latest and most advanced large language model (LLM) in the world.CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER A researcher gives…

An AI-driven system was found to be able to recognise facial expressions conveying emotions such as happiness and sadness, even fleeting ones, that researchers say could help support psychotherapy.The AI system that the researchers used for the study was a freely available artificial neural network trained to detect six basic emotions - happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, sadness and fear - using more than 30,000 facial photos. Artificial neural networks are a type of machine learning, a sub-field of AI, and are built…