The importance of emotion in AI systems

Rana el Kaliouby will present a keynote, Why AI needs emotion, at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, September 26-27, 2016, in New York. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. While I was in Beijing for Strata Hadoop World, several people reminded me of the chatbot Xiaoice--one of the most popular accounts on the Chinese social media site Weibo. Developed by Microsoft researchers, Xiaoice comes with a personality and is able to engage users in extended conversations on Weibo.