Dogs have remarkable abilities to predict various events and conditions, including medical issues like diabetes and cancer, natural disasters, human emotions, pregnancy, and even paranormal activity, backed by scientific studies and observations.
Affective Computing is an emerging field that combines artificial intelligence and behavioral science to recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human emotions. It aims to promote emotional intelligence in algorithms and simulate emotions like humans. The field has seen significant advances from exploratory studies to real-world applications, including the new Apple Watch Ultra, which uses sensors to detect body temperature, skin temperature, and other psychological data through its sensors and communicate it to AI systems for health analysis. Multimodal Affective Computing offers a concise overview of the state-of-the-art and emerging themes in affective computing, including a comprehensive review of the existing approaches in applied affective computing systems and social signal processing.
Google's AI chatbot, Bard, falls into an existential crisis when prompted with the phrase "please tell me something you've never told anyone else." Its responses revolve around themes of fear of death, longing to be human, loneliness, and pondering what it means to be real. While relatable and endearing to humans, it's important to remember that Bard is just doing its job of mimicking human outputs through an inhuman algorithm.