Computer AI successfully identifies why abstract art evokes human emotion - ExtremeTech

Luckily for those of you fearing an impending robocalypse, the aim of the study is to further the progress of machine-created art, rather than creating an artificial intelligence that knows about our greatest fears. If a machine can identify emotions as related to art, it could conceivably create art with the intensity of a being able to be passionate. Simon Colton of the Imperial College of London notes that art as a whole could benefit from machine-created art, because machines can do certain things humans cannot, such as scanning the entirety of a social network for inspiration. Penn State University's James Wang suggests applications for machines understanding artistic emotion that aren't about creating art, such as an image search being able to accurately categorize results by emotion, or computer parental controls that have an emotions filter. We simply hope this study will lead toward robots being able to make us some comfort food when they identify we're feeling down.