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Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health

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Is It to Always Make People Happy?

Is it to always make people happy and calm them down? There was a book about that, right? The Brave New World. Do we want AI to manipulate us into submission into making us happy? Well, if you are a power obsessed, sick dictator individual who only wants to control other people to get your jollies in life, then yeah, you want to use AI to extend your power and your scale to force people into submission. If you believe that the human race is better off being given freedom and the opportunity to do things that might surprise you, then you want to using AI to extend people's ability to build. We can read with the ordinary camera on your laptop or on

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