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Rosalind Picard / Empathetic Electronics

Click above to listen to Part 1 of Perpetual Emotion Machine, featuring Rosalind Picard, professor at the MIT Media Lab and co-founder of the companies Affectiva and Empatica, discussing how emotion-sensing tech may lead to having computers with the ability to relate to our experiences.

Perpetual Emotion machine:
Part 1: Rosalind Picard / Empathetic Electronics​
Part 2: Robert Sapolsky / Biology of Behavior​
Part 3: Robert Sapolsky / Free Will​
Part 4: Rosalind Picard / Emotional Transaction​

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