{"id":30147,"date":"2016-09-14T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-next-generation-of-bots-can-respond-to-your-mental-state"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:40:13","slug":"the-next-generation-of-bots-can-respond-to-your-mental-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-next-generation-of-bots-can-respond-to-your-mental-state","title":{"rendered":"The next generation of bots can respond to your mental state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-next-generation-of-bots-can-respond-to-your-mental-state.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SRI International, the Silicon Valley research lab where Apple\u2019s virtual assistant Siri was born, is working on a new generation of virtual assistants that respond to users\u2019 emotions.<\/p>\n<p>As artificial-intelligence systems such as those from Amazon, Google, and Facebook increasingly pervade our lives, there is an ever greater need for the machines to understand not only the words we speak, but what we mean as well\u2014and emotional cues can be valuable here (see \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/602094\/ais-language-problem\/\">AI\u2019s Language Problem<\/a>\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Humans] change our behavior in reaction to how whoever we are talking to is feeling or what we think they\u2019re thinking,\u201d says William Mark, who leads SRI International\u2019s Information and Computing Sciences Division. \u201cWe want systems to be able to do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/602352\/customer-service-bots-are-getting-better-at-detecting-your-agitation\/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/602352\/customer-service-b...edium=post<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRI International, the Silicon Valley research lab where Apple\u2019s virtual assistant Siri was born, is working on a new generation of virtual assistants that respond to users\u2019 emotions. As artificial-intelligence systems such as those from Amazon, Google, and Facebook increasingly pervade our lives, there is an ever greater need for the machines to understand not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60398,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30147\/revisions\/60398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}