What if technology has feelings!
Part-1
It’s been two years since corona entered the world, where it changed the lives of millions & billions of people. Even after drastic changes in economic industries leading to more psychological biases, there are changes in technology that people are following to engage themselves in work and even for self-entertainment. Now, have ever thought regarding the what if technology has feelings like humans do?
Everyone has feelings towards one another, some have feelings towards the non-livings like phone, laptop, car…… but do they feel on you? The answer was not yet discovered. There is existence of AI for many years using it to develop technology and simplify human tasks but is technology using AI for itself? the answer is YES now!
There is always a need to understand the difference between expressing feelings and having feelings towards something. It is possible to express feelings through some expressions and actions but expressing the actual feelings needs a lot of time in development. We have several fictional movies showing the real existence of feelings but results make it difficult to approach. The use of AI makes the task easier only for expressing the feelings of technology but not in reality. Computers have always been adept at doing quick computations, but reacting to the emotional condition of the person using the computer is a new problem! The topic is known as affective computing, and it will eventually play a significant role in how humans and computers engage with one another.
The computer will scan your body language to determine how you’re feeling and then react automatically, much as we do with each other. We will also like it since it is far more intuitive as an input mechanism than the keyboard, mouse, and touch screen. Emotional communication is a very old way of communication. Humans interacted nonverbally on an emotional level long before the creation of spoken language. It is still the major mechanism through which people interact with one another, with body language expressing the substance of a message, tone of voice sending, and words transmitting just.
This is why we can instantly understand people’s emotional states. You can tell if a stranger is angry, happy, or sad no matter where you are on the planet. Because it is such an old approach, many people can correctly guess how animals feel based on their body language.
How do computers recognize human emotions?
Computers will be able to read our emotions in the same way that humans do. It starts by connecting of gadgets like cameras, microphones, sensors to a computer, which collects data on face expression, posture, gesture, tone of voice, and other variables.
The data is then analyzed by smart software, which categorizes what it detects from the sensors using a database of known patterns. Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sorrow, surprise, amusement, contemptuous, happy, uncomfortable, delighted, guilty, proud of an accomplishment, relieved, satisfied, sensory pleasure, or humiliation may all match to the pattern.
A feedback loop is used by the system to learn and evolve. If one system is connected to other systems, what it learns may be learnt by all. This is the point at which some individuals get terrified. With an aging population and a rise in the number of persons living alone, there is a rising demand for companionship and support at home and at work to perform tasks that people are afraid to perform. Anthropomorphic artificial intelligence — working robots that look and act like people — will increasingly match this desire. People like that the objects we live with mimic human characteristics, therefore they will become more lifelike over time.
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