Happy? Sad? Forget age, Microsoft can now guess your emotions
by Hannah Jane Parkinson from Technology | The Guardian on (#T9AD)
Microsoft unveils beta tool on its website that guesses people's emotions through facial recognition software. But how does that make you feel?
Remember when Microsoft developed a tool that tried to guess our age? Of course you do - social media feeds were saturated for weeks with outraged 30-year-olds being told they were 50, and 14-year-olds given a glimmer of hope before attempting to buy alcohol.
Now Microsoft's going further by trying to guess our emotions. Which isn't at all creepy. Not at all. Try and guess my emotion, Microsoft. It 100% isn't "creeped out".
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