[Rant] Can AI read your emotions? (No, but ...)
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Face recognition has a bad rep in the ML community. While the technology continuously advances, so does the resistance against its applications, with good reasons: AI emotion analysis hints at a dystopian future where our lives are completely governed by algorithms. However, we must be realistic about what is and isn't possible with AI, and while current systems are not the most accurate, denying the link between your facial expression and your emotions is not productive either.

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 We need to talk about your face or face recognition in general. A tweet has been making the rounds saying facial recognition is able to analyze in real time the emotions and feelings. Just that. And it showed a video of an apparent real-time system looking at people's faces and determining what their emotions are. Now there is a predictable reaction of machine learning Twitter with respect to anything to do with facial recognition and that reaction is NO! The biggest reaction is NO! This is impossible. AI will never be able to infer your emotions by looking at your face. This is the data is not there. Anything like this. I just think that is really really really surprising. Honestly. Now look facial recognition technology isn't exactly the most popular subject. It's not going to win any Nobel Peace prizes anytime soon. Is this technology dystopian looking? Yes. Is it dangerous in the wrong hands? Yes. Does it work as advertised? Very probably no. Is it easy to be tricked? Absolutely yes. However saying that it is impossible for an AI to look at your face and infer your emotional state. That is... Wondering me. You do this every day. You look at people's faces and then you infer something about their internal state. People splitting hairs here about the word analyze to analyze the emotions and feelings. Well if you want to split words I would say inferring is a lot heavier than analyzing. Your face has literally evolved to convey your internal state. Other people have a trouble with saying well you can fake your face. Not all facial expressions can be faked. A lot of what you tell with your face is involuntary and there is in principle not a reason why a machine cannot pick up on these cues. Now this is not to say that this particular system works well. It probably does not. It is extremely hard to do this. To look at a face and get how that person is feeling through all the deception that might be there is an extremely hard task. But there's nothing supernatural about it. We do this. We're a machine. Ergo a machine can in principle do this. The most criticism I see right here is that well the machine only analyzes facial expressions. They have nothing to do with your emotions and feelings. What is that? Of course this has something to do with your emotions and feelings. Have you ever thought to yourself huh that person looks kind of sad today? Have you ever gone to someone and said you know you look a little bit down is everything okay? No never never and you certainly didn't infer this from their face. Hey doctor I have a problem. Well what's your problem? Well I banged my foot and now it hurts and it has a dent in it and it bleeds and it's swollen and everything is bad about my foot because I hit it and it might be broken. Well don't say it's broken because the external symptoms will never tell us anything about the internal state of a system. I'm sorry have you ever heard that an AI can diagnose lung cancer by looking at a chest x-ray? Well no well we can say it's just that the AI detects a little bit of a spot and there is no correlation at all. This is no indication of the internal state of the cancer. Shut up! Twitter makes it such that everyone immediately is extreme on the one side and extreme on the other side. Instead of saying the data to train this system is very hard to get, the systems itself aren't as good, they don't understand context that this happens in or nuances. That's very different from saying that no this is impossible. The most ridiculous is when people come out and compare this to phrenology or literally call it phrenology. You know phrenology, the science of what bump on your head means something about your personality or intelligence. Like my face has literally evolved to tell you something about my internal emotions. None of the bumps on my head have evolved to communicate about my intelligence. It is a predictable reaction for some reason. Anywhere where facial recognition technology is used there is a crowd of people coming out saying phrenology! Faces are a real thing, emotions are a real thing, there is a real connection between your facial expression and your emotions. It is more complicated than these machines right now can assess. It might require more context, more data, better algorithms and even things we don't have yet but this definitely exists. It is not a pseudoscience. Not everything that has to do with face recognition is a pseudoscience. It might be dangerous yet it's real. So in conclusion I guess my message here is that yes this is probably an over promise of what AI can do and it could easily be used for bad purposes. On the other hand this is not a pseudoscience, this is not impossible and research in this direction might actually lead to something good. Imagine an AI that is better than a human at recognizing emotions from someone's face assuming that is possible. We could avoid a lot of conflict, maybe do a lot of good work in suicide prevention and ultimately communicate with the AIs as we would with other humans. Apart from all the bad thing that we can do with facial recognition technology, ultimately its technology can be used for good and for bad and for evil. I'll end with the holy trifecta of broader impact statements. Technology good, technology bad, technology biased. Peace out.
 We need to talk about your face or face recognition in general. A tweet has been
 making the rounds saying facial recognition is able to analyze in real
 time the emotions and feelings. Just that. And it showed a video of an apparent
 real-time system looking at people's faces and determining what their
 emotions are. Now there is a predictable reaction of machine learning Twitter
 with respect to anything to do with facial recognition and that reaction is
 NO! The biggest reaction is NO! This is impossible. AI will never be able to
 infer your emotions by looking at your face. This is the data is not there.
 Anything like this. I just think that is really really really surprising.
 Honestly. Now look facial recognition technology isn't exactly the most
 popular subject. It's not going to win any Nobel Peace prizes anytime soon. Is
 this technology dystopian looking? Yes. Is it dangerous in the wrong hands? Yes.
 Does it work as advertised? Very probably no. Is it easy to be tricked?
 Absolutely yes. However saying that it is impossible for an AI to look at your
 face and infer your emotional state. That is... Wondering me. You do this every day.
 You look at people's faces and then you infer something about their internal
 state. People splitting hairs here about the word analyze to analyze the emotions
 and feelings. Well if you want to split words I would say inferring is a lot
 heavier than analyzing. Your face has literally evolved to convey your internal
 state. Other people have a trouble with saying well you can fake your face. Not
 all facial expressions can be faked. A lot of what you tell with your face is
 involuntary and there is in principle not a reason why a machine cannot pick
 up on these cues. Now this is not to say that this particular system works well.
 It probably does not. It is extremely hard to do this. To look at a face and
 get how that person is feeling through all the deception that might be there is
 an extremely hard task. But there's nothing supernatural about it. We do this.
 We're a machine. Ergo a machine can in principle do this. The most criticism I
 see right here is that well the machine only analyzes facial expressions. They
 have nothing to do with your emotions and feelings. What is that? Of course this
 has something to do with your emotions and feelings. Have you ever thought
 to yourself huh that person looks kind of sad today? Have you ever gone to
 someone and said you know you look a little bit down is everything okay? No
 never never and you certainly didn't infer this from their face. Hey doctor I
 have a problem. Well what's your problem? Well I banged my foot and now it hurts
 and it has a dent in it and it bleeds and it's swollen and everything is bad about
 my foot because I hit it and it might be broken. Well don't say it's broken because
 the external symptoms will never tell us anything about the internal state of a
 system. I'm sorry have you ever heard that an AI can diagnose lung cancer by
 looking at a chest x-ray? Well no well we can say it's just that the AI detects a
 little bit of a spot and there is no correlation at all. This is no
 indication of the internal state of the cancer. Shut up! Twitter makes it such that
 everyone immediately is extreme on the one side and extreme on the other side.
 Instead of saying the data to train this system is very hard to get, the systems
 itself aren't as good, they don't understand context that this happens in
 or nuances. That's very different from saying that no this is impossible. The
 most ridiculous is when people come out and compare this to phrenology or
 literally call it phrenology. You know phrenology, the science of what bump on
 your head means something about your personality or intelligence. Like my face
 has literally evolved to tell you something about my internal emotions.
 None of the bumps on my head have evolved to communicate about my
 intelligence. It is a predictable reaction for some reason. Anywhere where
 facial recognition technology is used there is a crowd of people coming out
 saying phrenology! Faces are a real thing, emotions are a real thing, there is a
 real connection between your facial expression and your emotions. It is more
 complicated than these machines right now can assess. It might require more
 context, more data, better algorithms and even things we don't have yet but this
 definitely exists. It is not a pseudoscience. Not everything that has to
 do with face recognition is a pseudoscience. It might be dangerous yet
 it's real. So in conclusion I guess my message here is that yes this is
 probably an over promise of what AI can do and it could easily be used for bad
 purposes. On the other hand this is not a pseudoscience, this is not impossible and
 research in this direction might actually lead to something good. Imagine
 an AI that is better than a human at recognizing emotions from someone's face
 assuming that is possible. We could avoid a lot of conflict, maybe do a lot of good
 work in suicide prevention and ultimately communicate with the AIs as we
 would with other humans. Apart from all the bad thing that we can do with facial
 recognition technology, ultimately its technology can be used for good and for
 bad and for evil. I'll end with the holy trifecta of broader impact statements.
 Technology good, technology bad, technology biased. Peace out.