What Is Artificial Emotional Intelligence?

Humans have always been able to claim mastery above machines when it comes to understanding emotion. But that won't be the case for long. While some may doubt that machines will encroach on emotion, those working in the field of artificial emotional intelligence, also known as emotion AI or affective computing, say we're well on our way, and by 2025, the global affective computing market will reach $174 billion. What is artificial emotional intelligence? When computers can read emotions by analyzing data, including facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice, force of keystrokes, and more to determine a person's emotional state and then react to it, we call this artificial emotional intelligence.