Today, an emerging category of AI—artificial emotional intelligence, or emotion AI—is focused on developing algorithms that can identify not only basic human emotions such as happiness, sadness, and anger but also more complex cognitive states such as fatigue, attention, interest, confusion, distraction, and more.
The field is progressing so fast that one can expect the technologies surrounding us to become emotion-aware in the next five years. AI driven devices such as smartphones or bidirectional loudspeakers with cameras will read and respond to human cognitive and emotional states, just the way humans do.
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