Rana el Kaliouby Quotes

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

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Everybody wants a robot that will do psychotherapy. But If you don't have empathy, you don't have psychotherapy. The robot doesn't know about life.

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.

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.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

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.

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

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

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.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.

We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

I think a lot of jobs, with that additional artificial intelligence, we can augment human capabilities and impact.

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.

We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they're not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.