{"id":357889,"date":"2018-04-22T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T07:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-chinas-largest-smartphone-maker-is-working-on-an-a-i-that-can-read-human-emotions\/"},"modified":"2018-04-22T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T07:51:10","slug":"prison-planet-com-chinas-largest-smartphone-maker-is-working-on-an-a-i-that-can-read-human-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-chinas-largest-smartphone-maker-is-working-on-an-a-i-that-can-read-human-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb China\u2019s largest smartphone maker is working on an A.I. that can read human emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/04\/20\/emotion-artificial-intelligence-huawei-working-on-an-emotional-ai.html\"><strong>CNBC<\/strong><\/a><br \/>April 20, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHENZHEN, China \u2014 Chinese tech company Huawei wants to change the way people talk to their artificially intelligent voice assistants. The firm plans to make those conversations more emotionally interactive, according to senior executives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Voice-powered virtual assistants currently serve a functional role, by giving information \u2014 \u201cWhat\u2019s the weather like?\u201d \u2014 or completing small tasks like turning on a playlist. Huawei wants to take that a step further and create a voice companion to fulfill some of its users\u2019 emotional needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to provide emotional interactions,\u201d Felix Zhang, vice president of software engineering at Huawei\u2019s consumer business group, told CNBC at the company\u2019s annual global analyst summit in Shenzhen, China.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei launched a voice assistant for the Chinese market in 2013 and said it\u2019s looking to release an emotion-based AI software in the near future. The company says it has 110 million users of its voice assistance on a daily basis in China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/04\/20\/emotion-artificial-intelligence-huawei-working-on-an-emotional-ai.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, April 20, 2018  at  6:41 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/chinas-largest-smartphone-maker-is-working-on-an-a-i-that-can-read-human-emotions.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/chinas-largest-smartphone-maker-is-working-on-an-a-i-that-can-read-human-emotions.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBCApril 20, 2018 SHENZHEN, China \u2014 Chinese tech company Huawei wants to change the way people talk to their artificially intelligent voice assistants. The firm plans to make those conversations more emotionally interactive, according to senior executives. Voice-powered virtual assistants currently serve a functional role, by giving information \u2014 \u201cWhat\u2019s the weather like?\u201d \u2014 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}