New Research Hints at How Your Smiles Could One Day Teach Artificial Intelligence

We live in an era when humans are busy training a new intelligence on this planet. Every once in a while, researchers come up with a novel way to speed up that teaching process. That's what happened at Microsoft Research where computer scientists recently developed a new approach to using human emotion to train machines how to learn.[i] The research used virtual agents to facilitate learning various tasks in a simulated environment. What is most significant about this research is that it trained those agents by exposing them to the smiles of human subjects as they interacted with the system.