Emotion and Technology

Affective computing is a term that refers to the synergy between AI and psychology in order to understand and affect emotions. Another term for it could be emotional AI. It is a niche within AI that is not very popular, but I really believe it is going to become increasingly in popularity in the near future.

Until very recently, machine learning did not have many things to say about psychology. We, of course, had sentiment analysis, but that’s that. In the last few years, some companies tried to combine psychometrics with machine learning in order to create improved psychometric questionnaires. However, I really believe that the advancements in effective computing and, what is now called mindless AI, are what is going to cause a potential paradigm shift.