Former Google VP: Machines emotionally intelligent in 2016 ZDNet

Andrew Moore, the Dean of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science and a former Vice President at Google, just told me something exciting. Moore predicts that 2016 will see a rapid proliferation of research on machine emotional understanding in machines. Robots, smart phones, and computers will very quickly start to understand how we're feeling and will be able to respond accordingly. AI might be a hot topic but you'll still need to justify those projects. "There will be immediate positive uses," he explains over the phone.