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DeepFace
A facial recognition system, developed by Facebook, which is now used on smartphones to easily unlock our phones. -
Emotion Processing Units (EMU's)
The company known as Emoshape created EMU's which are chips placed into devices, to give people a sense that devices feel emotions. Here's a link that shows how this works: https://youtu.be/GZyBGRtLP3E Makes me wonder: will this lead to having robots within our society one day? -
Affectiva
Originally launched in 2009, Affectiva is a company that makes AI technology that is emotionally intelligent - meaning it can read human emotions. Originally intended to make devices that could help people who struggle to produce & perceive affect. It now does projects such as collecting data from our emotions & predicts things such as whether or not we're entertained by a movie trailer. Here's a clip of the overview of what they do: https://youtu.be/mFrSFMnskI4 -
Siri
A virtual assistant that was originally an app, but now comes with Apple products such as the iPhone, iPad, iPod, & more.
Siri is comprised of three components - a conversational interface (how siri understands you), personal context awareness (how siri gathers & acts upon info) & service delegation (connection to apps on device) (O'Boyle, 2021). Siri has changed the experience of Apple devices. Fun fact: It was originally going to be released on Android and Blackberry devices (Allen, 2021). -
Siri (Citations)
Allen, J. (2021, October 4). 10 years of Siri: The history of Apple's voice assistant. TechRadar. Retrieved January 18, 2022 Pocket-lint. (2021, November 2). What is Siri and how does Siri work? Pocket-lint. Retrieved January 18, 2022 https://www.techradar.com/news/siri-10-year-anniversary
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Siri (Continued)
Siri has come a long way since it was released. There have been many updates & improvements in the 12 years since its release. At first, it struggled to understand certain people with different accents & you also had to be specific with what you said. Today, it understands much more of what you are needing along with creating proactive suggestions for its user. -
Pepper
A robot that was designed to read human emotions. It has many features which allows it to do this along with being able to engage with a human. Here's a small clip of an interview with pepper: https://youtu.be/zJHyaD1psMc -
Personal Robot Assitant
I predict that by 2030, we'll have personal robot assistants within the homes of most of America. I predict that it will be more than a device such as Siri or Alexa, rather it be a physical robot that helps us with whatever we need. -
Home Assitants
I predict that in 100 years, the robotic assistants that we have will now come installed in houses, cars, and phones before we receive them, such as the JARVIS assistant seen in the movie Iron Man. The assistant will be available to everyone within seconds, no matter where you are to be able to best assist you with what you need.