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Emotion AI - machine readable emotions in humans

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/17/emotion-ai-artificial-intelligence-mood-realeyes-amazon-facebook-emotient

Just been reading this article about Emotion AI which is cited in this article in being used to read emotional responses to advertising.

How well would this tech work for reading the emotional registers of those on the spectrum?

Would you value a tool or app which would be able to communicate to you other peoples emotions making it potentially easier to know earlier when you are about to make a social faux pas? 

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  • You're falling into the trap that the problem is simply that 'autistic people can't recognise emotion in others'...

    The truth of the matter is that we can recognise signs of emotion in others but we:

     - don't understand what has triggered that emotion and/or

     - don't consider emotion relevant to the situation, so discount it

    In the at article the machine picks up on 'negative responses' from the audience when Elton John is on screen and positive ones when the child/family are shown BUT it didn't know WHY... the idea that the negative response is due to people being 'tired of celebrities' and the positive down to 'family & kids' has had to come afterwards from human interpretation.

    Also, show that ad to an Elton fan who's recently split from their spouse and doesn't see their kid any more and I'd suggest you'd get the opposite responses read by the machine and it would still have no insight into WHY.

    Without knowing 'why' you might be about to make (or actually, have already made) a social fax pas the system would be useless...

    In fact I'd go so far as to say what they've built is essentially a 'high-functioning autistic AI' - it can recognise emotions but has no understanding of them or how to respond.

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