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Title: An iPhone that can 'feel' your pain? Apple's latest acquisition could make it happen Post by: HCK on January 10, 2016, 09:00:15 am An iPhone that can 'feel' your pain? Apple's latest acquisition could make it happen
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Apple has reportedly acquired artificial-intelligence startup Emotient, giving it access to technology that could one day imbue its devices with the ability to “read” people’s emotions through their facial expressions.</p><p> Emotient’s emotion-recognition technology derives from the Machine Perception Lab at the University of California at San Diego and has focused primarily on helping advertisers understand viewer reactions to their ads.</p><p> The acquisition was first reported (http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-buys-artificial-intelligence-startup-emotient-1452188715) Thursday in The Wall Street Journal, but terms of the deal were not disclosed.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3020208/consumer-electronics/an-iphone-that-can-feel-your-pain-apples-latest-acquisition-could-make-it-happen.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: An iPhone that can 'feel' your pain? Apple's latest acquisition could make it happen (http://www.macworld.com/article/3020208/consumer-electronics/an-iphone-that-can-feel-your-pain-apples-latest-acquisition-could-make-it-happen.html#tk.rss_all) |