Technology that knows what you're feeling | Poppy Crum

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🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions -- and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of becoming technological empaths, we get this opportunity where technology can help us bridge the emotional and cognitive divide," Crum says.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features neuroscientist and technologist Poppy Crum, recorded live at TED 2018.
0:09.1	What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? A computer now can detect our
0:16.4	slightest facial micro-expressions and be able to tell the difference between a real smile and a fake one.
0:22.1	That's only the beginning.
0:24.2	Technology has become incredibly intelligent
0:27.1	and already knows a lot about our internal states.
0:30.8	And whether we like it or not,
0:33.2	we already are sharing parts of our inner lives
0:36.7	that's out of our control.
0:39.9	That seems like a problem, because a lot of us like to keep what's going on inside
0:44.2	from what people actually see.
0:47.0	And we want to have agency over what we share and what we don't.
0:52.2	We all like to have a poker face.
0:56.2	But I'm here to tell you that I think that's a thing of the past,
1:00.1	and while it might sound scary,
1:02.4	it's not necessarily a bad thing.
1:05.7	I've spent a lot of time studying the circuits in the brain
1:08.6	that create the unique perceptual realities that we each have.
1:12.9	And now I bring that together with the capabilities of current technology,
1:16.4	to create new technology that does make us better,
1:19.0	feel more, connect more.
1:21.2	And I believe to do that,
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