The Engineer Using A.I. to Read Your Feelings

Rosalind Picard wants to build technology that understands human emotion

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RRosalind Picard is an electrical engineer on a mission to engineer emotion into artificial intelligence. In the world of experts who speak in zeros and ones, Picard is schooled in the language of affective computing, which focuses on the importance of encoding…

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Jessica Wapner, journalist, author and podcaster
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Jessica Wapner writes for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Scientific American & elsewhere. She co-hosted the podcast One Click and has written two books.