Rana el Kaliouby Quotes

I remember, once I was stressed, with an upcoming paper deadline. That little Microsoft Word clippy guy would show up in my face, jumping around and asking if I needed help. It had no understanding of my emotions and had zero empathy. That got me interested in this idea of tech being responsive to our emotions.

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

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.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

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

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.

I don't react and think off emotions - that gets you in a bad situation.

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.

I never say no or yes. I just listen to how I feel and follow my emotions.

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.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.