Key Takeaways from AI Conference in San Francisco 2017 – Day 1

Last week, experts from the AI world came together for the Artificial Intelligence Conference at San Francisco to discuss insights, opportunities, challenges and trends related to the rapidly expanding field of AI. The conference included hands-on trainings, tutorials, startup showcase (which was won by PipelineAI), keynotes, sessions, expo, and social events. Rana el Kaliouby, Co-founder and CEO, Affectiva gave the opening keynote on "The inevitable merger of IQ and EQ in technology". She shared her bold vision of making machines "emotion-aware" through understanding human emotions, gestures, conversations, facial expressions and tone of voice. As we design AI products and services, we need to embed in them not just high IQ but also high EQ, because emotions are a big part of human life.