You’ve got to have heart: Computer scientist works to help AI comprehend human emotions
Bring up robot-human relations, and you’re bound to conjure images of famous futuristic robots, from the Terminator to C-3PO. But, in fact, the robot invasion has already begun. Devices and programs, including digital voice assistants, predictive text and household appliances, are smart, and getting smarter. It doesn’t do, though, for computers to be all brain and no heart.
Computer scientist Aniket Bera is working to make sure the future is a little more “Big Hero 6” and a little less Skynet.