Rana el Kaliouby Quotes

I spent many, many hours with my computer, and it really bugged me that it was very oblivious to my emotional state. And that kind of inspired and motivated me to build an emotionally intelligent computer.

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

Emotion AI will be ingrained in the technologies we use every day, running in the background, making our tech interactions more personalized, relevant, authentic, and interactive.

With Emotion AI, we can inject humanity back into our connections, enabling not only our devices to better understand us, but fostering a stronger connection between us as individuals.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

Now with our Software Developer Kit (SDK), any developer can embed Emotion AI into the apps, games, devices, and digital experiences they are building, so that these can sense human emotion and adapt. This approach is rapidly driving more ubiquitous use of Emotion AI across a number of different industries.

You won't remember what it was like when your technology didn't recognize when you are sad or angry.

We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they're not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.

I think, in the future, we'll assume that every device just knows how to read your emotions.

My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.

Google created the intent graph. Facebook created the social graph. We are creating the emotional graph.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

Everybody wants a robot that will do psychotherapy. But If you don't have empathy, you don't have psychotherapy. The robot doesn't know about life.

We believe that one day Emotion AI will be ubiquitous, embedded on chips in our devices, ingrained into technology we use every day at home and at work.

I am often asked what the future holds for Emotion AI, and my answer is simple: it will be ubiquitous, engrained in the technologies we use every day, running in the background, making our tech interactions more personalized, relevant, authentic and interactive.

Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.

Emotion AI uses massive amounts of data. In fact, Affectiva has built the world's largest emotion data repository.

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.