Hi all,Our topic is AI Emotion Recognition. I'd like to focus on the recent criticism of this technology from neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett. Our reading will be the following piece from Scientific American. Barrett also has a much longer article and a video presentation for those of you interested in the details of her view.

• "Facial Expressions Do Not Reveal Emotions" (Scientific American)
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/darwin-was-wrong-your-facial-expressions-do-not-reveal-your-emotions/
• "Emotional Expressions Reconsidered" (Psychological Science in the Public Interest)
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default+domain/10.1177%2F1529100619832930-FREE/pd
•  "Can Machines Perceive Emotion?" (Google Talk)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJQXfL_GeM

I'll present a short summary of Barrett's views at the beginning of the meeting and then we'll discuss!


Best wishes,
Steven G. (sgubka@fau.edu)