Empathic AI Making Headway; Skeptics Abound

Emotion AI startups winning funding, despite concerns about bias and uncertainty in the results; auto manufacturers investing heavily in the tech to monitor driver behavior.

By John P. Desmond, Editor, AI in Business

If you are fighting sleep at the wheel, Affectiva’s emotion AI software embedded in the dashboard camera is likely to detect it and issue audible and visible alerts. (Photo by Miikka Luotio on Unsplash.)

A team of researchers in 2019 concluded that there is no evidence that emotional state can be predicted from t…