This is what happens when artificial intelligence meets emotional intelligence

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) over the years has become foundational technology in autonomous vehicles and security systems. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Stanford are teaching computers to recognise not just what objects are in an image, but also how those images make people feel. The team has trained an algorithm to recognise emotional intent behind great works of art like Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night and James Whistler's Whistler's Mother. "The ability will be key to making AI not just more intelligent, but more human," a researcher said in the study titled'ArtEmis: Affective Language for Visual Art'. The team built a database of 81,000 WikiArt paintings and over 4 lakh written responses from 6,500 humans indicating how they felt about a painting.