Emotion artificial intelligence next frontier for personal devices: Gartner

As artificial intelligence technology improves and matures, it will move on from an Apple Siri or a Google Assistant merely answering your questions to becoming your best friend and adviser. As per research firm Gartner Inc, personal devices such as mobile phones will know more about an individual's emotional state than his or her own family by 2022. According to statistics website Statista, the number of mobile phone users in India is expected to rise to 775.5 million in 2018. The number of smartphone users is expected to reach almost 443 million by 2022. In a report last year, networking company Cisco said India will have 1,380 million mobile-connected devices in India by 2021, with 60 percent of these being "smart" mobile connections. This means that Indians are looking at a huge number of "friendly" devices that will be able to detect human emotions and provide an option according to their moods.