Emotion-detecting chips claim to classify twelve emotions across 64 trillion states

Evidence

This is the commercial context in which Kaliouby came to feel that it is perfectly reasonable to assert that an “emotion chip” will become the base operational unit of a new “emotion economy.” She speaks to her audiences of a chip embedded in all things everywhere, running constantly in the background, producing an “emotion pulse” each time you check your phone: “I think in the future we’ll assume that every device just knows how to read your emotions.” At least one company, Emoshape, has taken her proposition seriously. The firm, whose tagline is “Life Is the Value,” produces a microchip that it calls “the industry’s first emotion synthesis engine,” delivering “high performance machine emotion awareness.” The company writes that its chip can classify twelve emotions with up to 98 percent accuracy, enabling its “artificial intelligence or robot to experience 64 trillion possible distinct emotional states.” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 900

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the prediction-imperative machinery established early in the book — the same drives that harvested behavioral surplus now extend into emotional interiority. — connects to: Emotion recognition reduces feelings to pattern-recognition problems for computers. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 889; Facebook patented emotion-detection software that images can classify into many feeling states — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 893; Emotion sensing is expanding from observation to mood modification — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 902 (+4 more)
• SEED: Angle: a skeptical audit of ‘emotion AI’ vendors’ absurd accuracy claims (98 percent, 64 trillion states) — who verifies these numbers and what they’d mean.

Broader Connections

• Machines can capture emotional reactions the subject cannot consciously report #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 882
• Affect perception is measured on arousal and valence dimensions rather than emotion labels #qualifies (0.78)
• Emotion in speech can be measured on arousal and valence dimensions rather than categories #qualifies (0.78) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1351
• Today’s emotion surveillance differs in kind, not just scale, from old advertising #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 885