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The problem with AI emotion recognition is not necessarily how good it is at identifying emotions. It's the fact that humans can make themselves feel emotions i

The problem with AI emotion recognition is not necessarily how good it is at identifying emotions. It's the fact that humans can make themselves feel emotions in order to reach their goals. If you can "believe in yourself" to make yourself more confident in succeeding at something, you've done the same type of mental manipulation as a compulsive liar who believes their own lie. It's not broken in practice, the theory doesn't work. This is a problem for humans too, but non-technical people take anything that a computer spits out as word of truth! We intuitively know it's hard for a human to really read a human. Not so for computers.

bsenftner 6y ago
Don't overlook the existence of professional actors. Conmen and various methods of crime require significant acting ability. I do not believe it is possible to create an AI sophisticated enough to identify skilled professional acting or for that matter ordinary deceit.
- whichquestion 6y ago
  I don’t know if there is anyone that knows for sure if it is possible to create an AI sophisticated enough to detect skilled professional acting. Though, if we allow our imaginations to take off a bit, one could imagine an AI that can represent the entire mental state of an individual in itself and probe it to determine if you’re acting while you’re acting in front of the AI.
- pessimizer 6y ago
  > Conmen and various methods of crime require significant acting ability I really don't think they do. The main thing that they require is that you don't listen to the anxiety (or after experience lose the anxiety completely) that everyone can see through you. It's the illusion of transparency that outs a liar, not any codable authenticity in their reaction. "Tells" are nervous tics, and "lie detectors" are sympathetic nervous system arousal detectors. People can't see through you. A funny thing you learn when doing public speaking is that they can't even see your crippling nervousness unless it expresses itself in stereotypical tics. If your tics are strange, people will have no insight into them (unless they know you.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_transparency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_transparency
  - bsenftner 6y ago
    Your impression of a professional criminal is ludicrous and appears to be based on movies and comic books. "Tells" do not exist when a person is method acting.

bsenftner 6y ago

Don't overlook the existence of professional actors. Conmen and various methods of crime require significant acting ability. I do not believe it is possible to create an AI sophisticated enough to identify skilled professional acting or for that matter ordinary deceit.

whichquestion 6y ago
I don’t know if there is anyone that knows for sure if it is possible to create an AI sophisticated enough to detect skilled professional acting. Though, if we allow our imaginations to take off a bit, one could imagine an AI that can represent the entire mental state of an individual in itself and probe it to determine if you’re acting while you’re acting in front of the AI.
pessimizer 6y ago
> Conmen and various methods of crime require significant acting ability I really don't think they do. The main thing that they require is that you don't listen to the anxiety (or after experience lose the anxiety completely) that everyone can see through you. It's the illusion of transparency that outs a liar, not any codable authenticity in their reaction. "Tells" are nervous tics, and "lie detectors" are sympathetic nervous system arousal detectors. People can't see through you. A funny thing you learn when doing public speaking is that they can't even see your crippling nervousness unless it expresses itself in stereotypical tics. If your tics are strange, people will have no insight into them (unless they know you.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_transparency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_transparency
- bsenftner 6y ago
  Your impression of a professional criminal is ludicrous and appears to be based on movies and comic books. "Tells" do not exist when a person is method acting.