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Rosalind Picard / Emotional Transaction

Click above to listen to Part 4 of Perpetual Emotion Machine, featuring Rosalind Picard, professor at the MIT Media Lab and co-founder of the companies Affectiva and Empatica, describing the lightning fast exchange of emotional data between living beings, and how this can be replicated by a machine.

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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