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Real-time Future: Computers that know who you are and how you feel
Tech startup IMRSV with its sensor based software called Cara is pushing open doors to a future in which computers know who we are and react to us accordingly.
Cara detects multiple faces up to 25 feet away, is over 90% accurate with its gender detection, is more than 80% of the time right when it comes to noting the correct age: child (0-13), young adult (14-35), adult (35-65), or senior (65+). It also records how much and what kind of attention they’re giving the camera. This includes total duration (time in front of the camera), glances (looking away and back), attention time (facing the camera), and opportunity to see (traffic near the camera).
MIT Media Lab’s Professor Picard and Dr Rana El Kaliouby have taken face recognition to yet another level. Their software, Affectiva, can read human emotions and is capable of distinguishing a real smile from a fake one.
With these groundbreaking technologies already available it is only a matter of time before a combined solution hits the market and then computers will not only know who we are but also how we feel.
They are unlikely to look like C-3PO, but in any case are you ready for this new species?
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