What Is Artificial Emotional Intelligence & How Does Emotion AI Work?

Imagine a world in which machines interpret the emotional state of humans and adapt their behavior to give appropriate responses to those emotions. Well, artificial emotional intelligence, which is also known as emotion AI or affective computing, is already being used to develop systems and products that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects (with an "a," not an "e"). In psychology, an "affect" is a term used to describe the experience of feeling or emotion. If you've seen "Solo: A Star Wars Story", then you've seen the poster child for artificial emotional intelligence: L3-37. Lando Calrissian's droid companion and navigator (voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge) instigates a slave revolt to escape from Kessel, but is severely damaged during the diversion.