As AI-powered software that can identify human emotions becomes more common, a new browser game wants to illustrate the limits of technology. Sighted by , the Emojify Project was created by Professor Alexa Hagerty, from the University of Cambridge. You’ll find it on. He will ask you to look at your computer’s web camera and try to produce six different emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust and anger. As you play, what you’ll notice is that it’s easy to trick the software. For example, you can fake a smile to trick you into thinking you are happy. Ultimately, that is the purpose of the experiment.
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What the game is trying to achieve is that there is often a disconnect between the emotions we experience internally and the face we show the world. For example, think about when someone cries. In most situations, they do this because they are sad, but people also cry for joy. Humans are confused and complicated, and we all experience emotions differently. To suggest that it is possible to distill how we feel at any given moment in a simple set of emojis does neither of us any favors. As with, there is also the problem of racial prejudice. A found that programs like Face ++ usually classify the faces of black men as more angry and unhappy than their white counterparts, regardless of the actual expression displayed.
And yet the technology is becoming more and more common. It is not just something that you see more. Organizations and governments are using it for everything from screening to passport security. Even Apple in space at one point. By showing the flaws in the emotion recognition software, the project hopes to start conversations about its use. “Our goal is to promote public understanding of these technologies and the involvement of citizens in their development and use,” says the group. “We believe that, through collective intelligence and the sharing of perspectives on such important issues, we can empower communities to promote a fair and equitable society.”