Episode 25: The Future of Human-Computer Interaction. Featuring Elnar Hajiyev

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Summary

TLDRThe podcast episode features Ela Haj haev, the co-founder and CTO of Real Eyes, discussing the evolution and application of emotion AI. Ela shares how Real Eyes aims to make technology more human by enabling devices to understand emotions, which he considers a missing link in current technology. The discussion touches on his entrepreneurial journey, the groundbreaking features of Real Eyes, and how the software is applied across industries like marketing, online education, and security. Ela emphasizes the ethical considerations, such as privacy and bias, in emotion recognition technology. He also speaks about the company's strategies related to product development and navigating ethical implications, highlighting the importance of explicit user consent. The episode concludes with a discussion on the future of emotion AI, envisioning applications in AI avatars and emphasizing continuous focus on improving the detection of subtle negative emotions to enhance emotional well-being. Ela also shares the importance of community involvement in navigating AI challenges and fostering innovation.

Takeaways

  • 🎀 Ela Haj haev discusses emotion AI on the SAS leaders Lounge podcast.
  • 🌍 Real Eyes aims to humanize technology by recognizing emotions.
  • πŸ” The company ensures ethical use with GDPR compliance and explicit consent.
  • πŸ“ˆ Emotion AI applications extend to marketing, education, and security.
  • 🧠 Advancements in computing power boost emotion AI capabilities.
  • πŸ‘₯ Community involvement aids in overcoming entrepreneurial challenges.
  • πŸŽ“ Real Eyes has applications that help gauge audience engagement.
  • πŸ›‘ Privacy and bias are top concerns in emotion recognition technology.
  • πŸ“Ή Future focus includes AI avatars for enhanced customer interactions.
  • πŸ˜€ Ela aims to improve AI detection of subtle negative emotions.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    In this segment, the host Ramone introduces the podcast "SAS Leaders Lounge" and presents the guest, Ela Haj haev, co-founder and CTO of RealEyes. They discuss Ela's background from the University of Oxford to developing RealEyes, a leading company in emotion recognition technology. Ela shares his inspiration behind founding RealEyes, driven by the mission to make technology more human by enabling devices to understand emotions.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Ela discusses the pivotal moments that led him to co-found RealEyes, influenced by his personal passion for entrepreneurship and meeting his co-founders. He describes the evolution of AI, especially with the rise of machine learning and data volumes that have enhanced emotion recognition technology. Ela reflects on how these technological advancements have shaped RealEyes' journey, focusing heavily on reading faces and facial expressions to understand human behavior.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Ela elaborates on RealEyes' groundbreaking features, explaining how their technology tracks facial expressions to measure audience engagement and reactions. These innovations are applicable in different industries, including online education and fraud detection. Ela highlights how the technology can enhance audience engagement, provide insights into video content quality, and ensure human authenticity in online research. RealEyes aims to lead the emotion AI space with these applications.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Discussing collaboration within the C-level executive community "Squirrel Squadron," Ela points out how sharing ideas and challenges with other executives aids RealEyes in addressing industry issues. He notes the reassurance from recognizing common startup challenges and benefits gained from community learning. This collaborative approach helps leverage external knowledge, aiding in real eyes’ innovation strategy and ensuring ethical considerations in emotion AI development.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Ela emphasizes RealEyes' commitment to ethical considerations, particularly focusing on privacy and consent in emotion recognition. He discusses the importance of legal compliance, bias minimization, and maintaining security measures. Ela explains the steps RealEyes takes to ensure unbiased and context-aware emotion recognition technology that aligns with ethical values and legal standards, thus enhancing its credibility and reliability.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:21

    Looking to the future, Ela shares his vision for the evolution of emotion AI, particularly in developing AI avatars that interact like humans. He foresees an increase in AI-driven communication tools across sectors, emphasizing real-time interpretation of human emotions to improve engagement. Ela underscores the potential of emotion AI in nonverbal communication recognition and its application in making AI interactions more human-like and effective across different industries.

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Video Q&A

  • Who is Ela Haj haev?

    Ela Haj haev is the co-founder and CTO of Real Eyes, known for his work in emotion recognition technology.

  • What is the mission of Real Eyes?

    The mission of Real Eyes is to make technology more human by enabling devices to understand our emotions.

  • How does Real Eyes address ethical issues in emotion recognition technology?

    Real Eyes ensures full GDPR compliance, requires explicit consent, and avoids using technology in settings without user consent, like security cameras.

  • What are some applications of emotion AI mentioned in the podcast?

    Applications include audience engagement analysis, online education, fraud detection, and mental well-being analysis.

  • What technology advancements aid Real Eyes' emotion AI development?

    Advancements include improved data processing with deep neural networks and increased compute power.

  • How does Real Eyes handle privacy concerns?

    Real Eyes complies with GDPR, asks for explicit consent, and uses secure systems with external security audits.

  • What future applications of emotion AI does Ela mention?

    Ela mentions the potential for AI avatars in customer support and more realistic interactions using emotion AI.

  • What areas are crucial in maintaining the fairness of AI models at Real Eyes?

    Real Eyes focuses on fairness by evaluating performance based on age, gender, and skin tone.

  • What role does community play for Ela Haj haev in tech innovation?

    Participating in communities like the squirrel Squadron provides support, shares challenges, and generates ideas for innovation.

  • Which emotions are Real Eyes focusing on improving detection for?

    Real Eyes aims to improve detection of subtle negative emotions and promote emotional well-being.

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    hello and welcome to SAS leaders Lounge
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    your Premier podcast for insights into
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    the tech World hosted by me Ramone today
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    in our AI series we're excited to have
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    Ela Haj haev the co-founder and CTO of
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    real a with us El Journey from the
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    University of Oxford to pioneering roles
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    in a tech entrepreneurship including his
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    transformative work at real eyes has set
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    new benchmarks in Emotion recognition
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    technology and its applications Ela it's
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    a pleasure to have you with us today how
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    are you and where are you joining us
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    from hi Ramon thanks for the invitation
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    uh great pleasure to to join you today
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    as well I'm joining from Barcelona
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    actually beautiful beautiful place I
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    must say and also one of my teams I'm
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    pleasure to have you here today oh I
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    must say I think our guest and our
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    audience is going to love what kind of
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    you have in store for us so Ela to dive
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    straight into it are you able to share
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    your inspiration behind real eyes and
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    the specific Market needs you aim to
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    address with its
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    Inception sure um well let's realize
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    what we're trying to uh to do is we are
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    we have a mission of um making
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    technology more human
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    um so that there's obviously a great
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    technological development all all around
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    um a lot of AI development as well um
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    and I think we've always felt that one
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    thing one important link that was
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    missing in all of the applications and
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    different kinds of Technologies is the
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    ability for our devices to actually
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    understand our
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    emotions um and that's the mission that
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    we set out with um and that's the
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    missing link that we're working to solve
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    and the technology that we're
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    building brilliant I must say um a lot
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    of our listeners are on a journey right
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    now in careers or thinking to start
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    something like yourself looking back on
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    your entrepreneurial Journey what
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    pivotal moments LED you to co-found real
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    eyes and how have you seen the landscape
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    of AI and emotion recognition evolve
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    since
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    then well I've always been interested in
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    entrepreneurship uh because I don't know
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    it's hard to say why I think my father
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    is an entrepreneur um and I sort of
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    liked uh the ideas behind it and and
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    always wanted to do that realiz is uh
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    not the first company that I've
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    co-founded I had other um companies that
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    were actually uh in the end uh turning
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    out quite
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    successfully as well so um there there's
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    there's a number of different pivotal
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    moments that led to um to uh uh this uh
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    startup I think one of the pivotal
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    moments was me meeting my uh co-founders
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    obviously yeah um you know it's just uh
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    people with uh some great ideas and
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    clicking together um you know sometimes
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    you do that intentionally sometimes it
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    happens by luck uh for me was more of uh
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    luck I think um yeah but um yeah I mean
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    it was it was just one of those
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    important moments where we we were
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    talking about um technologies that were
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    evolving that were able to uh better
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    understand human behavior through um
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    specialized devices or uh web cameras
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    and uh we were fascinated about this and
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    and kind of wanted to pull together to
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    see what we could uh do about it um and
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    then you know just throughout um the um
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    the work that we had on uh realize in in
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    you know at at the time when we were
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    starting it I think the machine learning
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    was was really uh taking off um and uh
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    you know first um there were compute
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    power that was kind of uh increasing uh
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    and volumes of data that was uh being
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    generated to to train machine learning
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    models um and then and then and that
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    enabled the ability to train deep neural
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    networks um and then you know from from
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    then onwards more and more uh different
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    types of uh AI models have started to
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    appear um and we've been just part of
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    that Journey we've seen it all happening
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    um and we were obviously within the
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    space that we're working on uh which is
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    reading faces reading facial
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    expressions um
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    uh we were we were kind of um riding the
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    wave along with everyone
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    else that's truly fascinating I must say
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    and R as has recently introduced some
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    groundbreaking features could you
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    elaborate on these Innovations and the
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    implications for emotion AI across
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    various
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    Industries uh yes absolutely so
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    um uh first of all uh I'd like to kind
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    of explain the the the differ features
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    that that we have so we're we're we're
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    focusing on faces and um we kind of find
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    faces uh in the camera feed uh we're
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    able to recognize faces we're able to
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    recognize um things like age and gender
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    uh of the phase and then uh we start
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    tracking phase to see if we can read um
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    facial
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    expressions and uh depending on the
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    context in which these facial
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    expressions appear interpret them as
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    certain reactions it can be emotional
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    reactions or it can be an indication of
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    uh levels of attention so are people
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    actually paying attention or or they
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    being
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    distracted um and then you know this is
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    just a generic technology and and then
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    you can apply it in different
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    scenarios uh one of the scenarios that
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    we have been applying this technology is
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    trying to gauge um audiences engage with
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    content on their screen so we would show
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    um people for example um movie trailers
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    or advertisement videos uh or social
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    media videos and kind of uh measure
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    their reactions um and that can be very
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    valuable to understand if uh these
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    videos are of high quality if they're
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    engaging the the audience correctly and
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    so on um besides that uh of course the
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    applications of this technology are are
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    are much broader um we've been
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    experimenting with use of this
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    technology in online
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    education uh where especially during the
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    covid uh where a lot of education has
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    moved to online um the the teachers have
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    noticed um the challenges of trying to
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    keep the audience engaged or trying to
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    be to stay aware who in the audience is
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    being engaged and who is not or how much
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    the audience overall is engaged um and
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    if you know and take take certain
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    actions take certain corrective actions
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    uh if necessary so again this kind of
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    technology is is able to uh enable these
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    type of uh this type of
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    capabilities um One new area that we've
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    been uh we've been working on recently
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    is U fraud um fraud uh uh detection so
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    um you know kind of trying to uh um um
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    see if there is a real human uh behind
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    the camera and if that human um is
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    actually um really truly participating
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    in for example an online uh research
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    that might be being
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    conducted um there are applications in
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    gaming there are applications in
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    security um there are there there are
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    great applications in mental well-being
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    um and we have worked on some of those
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    applications as well so this kind of
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    technology has very very broad
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    applications of course their
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    applicability depends on the maturity of
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    the technology and how fine-tuned can it
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    be um for the specific use
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    case that's remarkable own I must say I
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    was previously a math teacher before
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    diving into recruitment I could
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    definitely see the effect that would
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    have on my classroom to kind of pinpoint
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    who needs needs some further attention
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    as well but overall I think it showcases
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    how real eyes isn't just a participant
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    but a leader in this emotion AI space I
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    think your innovations that you've
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    mentioned and including definitely that
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    fraud detection element has the
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    potential to revolutionize how we
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    interact with technology on a um
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    emotional level especially with security
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    and the element is imported but your
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    enthusiasm for the squirel sandr
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    newsletter and its insights into Tech
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    and product development is well noted as
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    I have looked at previous post of yours
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    as well how do these insights shape your
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    strategy and product development at real
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    I uh well I guess uh couple of words
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    about uh squirrel Squadron so it's a
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    squadron of um uh uh C Level Executives
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    um a lot of whom are CEOs um uh cpos
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    Chief product officers or CTO Chief
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    technology officers uh but also others C
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    se s um sea level um uh people and um I
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    think for me everybody probably has a
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    you know has something uh specific um to
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    them to take away from being part of of
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    such Community for me um an important
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    aspect was um first of all um kind of
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    confirmation that a lot of challenges
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    that um I'm myself being a CTO a CTO in
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    a startup um the challenges that we had
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    are very similar across startups of of
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    um all sizes particular similar type of
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    sizes so this this is very reassuring
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    because uh especially those who are um
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    you know first time start Toppers they
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    may um feel like oh my God you know this
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    is only happening to me I'm doing
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    something terribly wrong um and then
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    there's a lot of a lot of great ideas a
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    lot of great practices that are being
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    shared by the community by by by people
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    um who are part of the community um in
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    in in how to address certain challenges
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    that that do come up um and some
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    challenges you know you resonate very
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    strongly with them because they did come
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    up or are actually coming up in your
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    company some maybe something that would
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    happen in the future but you haven't yet
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    experienced that but it's still
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    interesting to learn about it um so it's
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    it's it's really being part of the
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    community and uh you know being part of
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    the like-minded people and kind of uh
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    being the support group to each other
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    this is this is an absolutely free
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    community for anyone to join and I
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    definitely highly recommend there's
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    always something new to learn um even
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    though I've been I've been doing this
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    for for for many years I'm I'm always
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    fascinated how um you know that there's
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    there's so much to learn more
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    definitely and I see the benefits of
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    that Community as that's what we kind of
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    foster on SAS leaders lounge and even um
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    with two previous guests we've had so
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    far and I've kind of identified what was
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    their main concerns in the first six
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    months and they've always said that the
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    sales and marketing part like you've got
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    this AI engineering brain but being a
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    part of a community can actually allow
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    you to find resources and how to boost
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    those actual year sales and marketing
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    aspects that will really drive your
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    business further in terms of the
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    exposure needs within that time so I
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    think yeah it's inspiring to see how you
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    leverage external knowledge to fuel the
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    Innovation at real eyes in the realm of
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    AI we did touch on this slightly
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    previously but where privacy concerns
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    are Paramount how does Real Eyes
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    navigate the ethical implications of
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    emotion recognition
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    technology yeah privacy has always been
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    super important for us um we are working
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    uh with facial data um and that is uh
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    personally identifiable data um and we
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    kind of recognize the sensitivity of the
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    data that we're working with even before
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    the gdpr came came into Force um and um
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    so we just follow certain rules and
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    principles such as um uh making sure
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    that we are fully legally compliant so
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    100% gdpr uh
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    compliance we're we're making sure that
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    um we're always asking for explicit
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    consent so we don't um access camera we
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    don't um record people unless people
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    explicitly agree um so um we obviously
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    uh uh pay a lot of attention to security
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    of our systems um and uh you know think
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    things like um you know ensuring s SO2
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    compliance um and having external
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    parties to review uh from time to time
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    the infrastructure uh from the security
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    point of view uh we do we do open
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    ourselves to external audits um so by
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    you know one of the big audit companies
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    um so these are these are um some of the
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    critical critical items I think one one
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    important thing for us um also from the
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    ethical uh standpoint is that the
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    applications that we're working on and
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    the applications that we kind of enable
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    our technology for um has to be an
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    explicit consent on applications so that
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    means that uh we wouldn't agree to to
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    the kind of
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    applications where um this would be used
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    in security cameras where people
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    obviously haven't been haven't consented
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    they don't have a chance to give a
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    consent and this software would be would
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    be runting sort of secret Seely um
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    behind the cameras there so no so all of
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    the applications are um by Design such
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    that there there is an explicit consent
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    before um the technolog is being
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    used I think I'm prioritizing those
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    ethical considerations is definitely
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    crucial and commendable and it does
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    sound like you're setting a standard for
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    this as well but considering the rapid
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    advancements in AI I think especially
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    considering your solution there's a risk
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    of bias or misinterpretation in
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    emotional emotion recognition how does
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    real address these
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    challenges uh yeah this is also a very
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    important uh part of our work so one of
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    the um uh areas that we very seriously
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    look at is fairness of our models um and
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    there are uh some uh specific segments
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    by which we um try to um uh pay special
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    attention uh and these are age uh gender
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    and where possible we're also looking at
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    skin tone um and measuring the
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    performance evaluating the performance
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    of models by these
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    Dimensions um and then trying to adjust
  • 00:16:13
    our models to uh ensure that there is no
  • 00:16:17
    bias or that bias is kept to um minimal
  • 00:16:20
    minimal levels um so this is this is one
  • 00:16:24
    one area that's that's really important
  • 00:16:25
    for us um another one is is kind of
  • 00:16:29
    connected to that is the robustness of
  • 00:16:31
    models uh we're also trying to um make
  • 00:16:35
    sure that the model Works across
  • 00:16:38
    different kinds of devices and different
  • 00:16:40
    kinds of um environmental conditions so
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    if somebody is um using for example a a
  • 00:16:48
    lower quality device that they they
  • 00:16:50
    would they would not uh be prevented
  • 00:16:53
    from using this kind of technology so
  • 00:16:55
    that's why our data set uh contains uh
  • 00:16:59
    um data that that's been collected in
  • 00:17:01
    all all from all kinds of camera uh
  • 00:17:04
    camera devices so that's um that's
  • 00:17:06
    another critical critical aspect um of
  • 00:17:10
    what we do then uh I also mentioned this
  • 00:17:13
    context uh specific awareness so um it
  • 00:17:19
    is uh so what we're measuring uh uh is
  • 00:17:23
    actually facial
  • 00:17:24
    expressions and how you interpret these
  • 00:17:28
    facial Expressions is very much context
  • 00:17:31
    specific so you know if somebody is
  • 00:17:34
    smiling in in in a scenario where you're
  • 00:17:37
    showing them a funny video you know
  • 00:17:40
    might have um a different interpretation
  • 00:17:43
    if if if somebody is uh smiling in in a
  • 00:17:47
    scenario where uh maybe they're
  • 00:17:50
    expressing a doubt um because of uh some
  • 00:17:53
    information that's being provided to
  • 00:17:55
    them that they don't believe in um so it
  • 00:17:58
    is very want to understand the context
  • 00:18:00
    in which technology is being used um and
  • 00:18:03
    and that's something that obviously
  • 00:18:06
    depending on the scenario and
  • 00:18:08
    application Um this can this can be um
  • 00:18:12
    uh a difficult difficult subject but
  • 00:18:14
    that's something that's always at the
  • 00:18:16
    top of our mind and we try to make sure
  • 00:18:18
    that we bring that into the
  • 00:18:19
    interpretation element as much as
  • 00:18:22
    possible brilliant brilliant I think um
  • 00:18:25
    your approach to as you mentioned the
  • 00:18:26
    context or mitigating the bias is
  • 00:18:28
    essential for the creditability and also
  • 00:18:31
    reliability of um emotion AI but it's
  • 00:18:34
    clear real eyes is committed to these
  • 00:18:36
    ethical and kind of accurate technology
  • 00:18:38
    departments and as we look ahead to the
  • 00:18:41
    Future how do you see emotion AI
  • 00:18:43
    evolving and what role will R eyes play
  • 00:18:45
    and shape in this trajectory across
  • 00:18:47
    various
  • 00:18:50
    sectors well one area that we're
  • 00:18:52
    particularly fascinated um in the
  • 00:18:55
    development of emotion AI um is
  • 00:18:59
    uh AI
  • 00:19:00
    avatars um so um you probably have seen
  • 00:19:07
    um a lot of AI or starting to see an
  • 00:19:10
    increase in AI avatars appearing out
  • 00:19:13
    there and that particularly started to
  • 00:19:16
    happen uh with the launch of Chad GPT
  • 00:19:19
    kind of uh
  • 00:19:21
    models um there is um another type of
  • 00:19:24
    technology that not many people are
  • 00:19:26
    aware of yet but you know it's gradually
  • 00:19:29
    increasing is um a human realistic uh
  • 00:19:34
    avatars uh so where um avatars are being
  • 00:19:38
    visually generated and they look like
  • 00:19:40
    real humans but they're 100% generated
  • 00:19:44
    and and so uh pairing these two
  • 00:19:47
    technologies together human realistic
  • 00:19:50
    avatars and chat GPT kind of models uh
  • 00:19:53
    enables AI avatars AI assistants yeah of
  • 00:19:58
    totally different level and our vision
  • 00:20:01
    is that there's going to be uh more and
  • 00:20:03
    more of such assistants um that are
  • 00:20:07
    appearing in in different kind of um
  • 00:20:10
    applications it's going to start with um
  • 00:20:13
    probably um customer support so a lot of
  • 00:20:16
    the customer support is going to be um
  • 00:20:19
    you know these uh not very useful uh
  • 00:20:23
    chatbots are going to be replaced with a
  • 00:20:26
    lot more um human fre friendly avatars
  • 00:20:31
    um and I think I think this is one area
  • 00:20:34
    that um is really fascinating for
  • 00:20:36
    applications of our kind of Technology
  • 00:20:40
    um because these AI human realistic AI
  • 00:20:42
    avatars when they're interacting with
  • 00:20:44
    another person uh obviously they're
  • 00:20:46
    going to be a lot better if they um if
  • 00:20:50
    they are able to sense humans uh not
  • 00:20:54
    only by what they're saying but also by
  • 00:20:57
    their behavior are they um uh enjoying
  • 00:21:01
    the conversation or they're being um
  • 00:21:03
    unhappy about it are they even paying
  • 00:21:05
    attention to the conversation or they're
  • 00:21:07
    being distracted and doing something
  • 00:21:09
    else or is it still the same person I'm
  • 00:21:12
    interacting with or has the person
  • 00:21:14
    walked away and now another person came
  • 00:21:16
    in in front of uh the Avatar so so
  • 00:21:19
    that's that's one area that we're
  • 00:21:21
    particularly
  • 00:21:22
    excited uh about um uh but in general I
  • 00:21:27
    think emotion AI techn is going to
  • 00:21:29
    continue developing more and more into
  • 00:21:32
    forms of uh
  • 00:21:34
    nonverbal uh forms of communication so
  • 00:21:36
    recognizing more of the gestures more
  • 00:21:39
    nuanced um uh uh types of uh behaviors
  • 00:21:44
    and of course
  • 00:21:45
    multimodality so that's that's taking
  • 00:21:48
    many aspects uh or you know many sensors
  • 00:21:53
    uh be it audio be it video uh be it some
  • 00:21:56
    the contextual information po it all
  • 00:21:59
    together to make an even more accurate
  • 00:22:02
    understanding of of us humans in the
  • 00:22:04
    during the interaction
  • 00:22:06
    process brilliant and I really like the
  • 00:22:09
    answer I I say I spoke to the founder of
  • 00:22:11
    deep AI called Kevin Baragon and one of
  • 00:22:14
    the questions for him was what's the
  • 00:22:16
    misconceptions about the future in Ai
  • 00:22:18
    and he's kind of clearly mentioned what
  • 00:22:20
    you said people think that AI is going
  • 00:22:22
    to be very robotic but in fact it's
  • 00:22:24
    going to be very human realistic and
  • 00:22:27
    very humanlike to allow us to to kind of
  • 00:22:29
    trust and work together more effectively
  • 00:22:31
    so it's great you've pinpointed that as
  • 00:22:32
    well in your
  • 00:22:34
    answer if you could perfect an AI system
  • 00:22:38
    to read and respond to one specific
  • 00:22:41
    emotion which emotion would you choose
  • 00:22:43
    and why uh I would uh I would choose
  • 00:22:51
    um that's a that's an interesting
  • 00:22:54
    question I I maybe I have two answers uh
  • 00:22:57
    uh to it one answer is um I would choose
  • 00:23:01
    um positive emotion so a happy or a
  • 00:23:05
    smile um and the reason being because um
  • 00:23:10
    you know one of the things that that uh
  • 00:23:14
    part of our mission is to bring more
  • 00:23:16
    Smiles uh into the world so a trillion
  • 00:23:19
    more
  • 00:23:20
    Smiles um and um um but uh the the the
  • 00:23:27
    happy emotion is something that we're
  • 00:23:29
    we're already able to uh recognize and
  • 00:23:32
    read quite well um The Challenge uh
  • 00:23:36
    right now is more on the um the you know
  • 00:23:40
    the negative emotions the um not very
  • 00:23:44
    explicit subtle especially if somebody
  • 00:23:46
    is maybe um subtly depressed or kind of
  • 00:23:51
    in a in a in a in a bad mood um and of
  • 00:23:55
    course I'd like to invest in enabling um
  • 00:23:58
    the the technology to to understand that
  • 00:24:01
    better so we're we're able to um help
  • 00:24:05
    with the initiatives of uh um emotional
  • 00:24:08
    well-being and uh and that way bring the
  • 00:24:12
    trillion more Smiles uh into the
  • 00:24:16
    world I agree with myself probably um
  • 00:24:19
    would help a lot of relationships as
  • 00:24:21
    well in solving problems I think there's
  • 00:24:22
    a lot of real life problems that could
  • 00:24:24
    solve I must say and I'm a very smiley
  • 00:24:26
    person myself and I think it's clear to
  • 00:24:29
    see um the opposite but some people you
  • 00:24:31
    can't really tell the difference in
  • 00:24:33
    their emotions so yeah that's a game
  • 00:24:35
    changer now we're going to move on to
  • 00:24:37
    our light-hearted quickfire section just
  • 00:24:39
    so our listeners could get a peek into
  • 00:24:41
    the person behind the Innovation
  • 00:24:43
    yourself um would you prefer to never
  • 00:24:46
    have to work again or love your work so
  • 00:24:48
    much that you never want to
  • 00:24:51
    retire never want to
  • 00:24:53
    retire brilliant would you prefer to be
  • 00:24:56
    the best player on a losing team or the
  • 00:24:58
    worst player on a winning
  • 00:25:01
    team oo that's a tough one I would go
  • 00:25:04
    for worst player in the in the in the
  • 00:25:06
    best
  • 00:25:07
    team would you prefer um a rainy day or
  • 00:25:11
    a sunny
  • 00:25:13
    day can I have any
  • 00:25:16
    day I like I like both so that's
  • 00:25:21
    positivity I must say um do you prefer
  • 00:25:23
    investing or
  • 00:25:26
    saving investing
  • 00:25:29
    brilliant brilliant and we're probably
  • 00:25:31
    past the times now so but I guess it's
  • 00:25:34
    still right to us would you prefer
  • 00:25:36
    handwritten letters or
  • 00:25:38
    emails depends but I'll go for
  • 00:25:42
    handwritten yeah I guess it depends on
  • 00:25:44
    the
  • 00:25:45
    content perly and last two questions do
  • 00:25:48
    you prefer a museum or an amusement
  • 00:25:56
    park hard I'll go
  • 00:25:59
    for
  • 00:26:01
    Museum nice nice Definitely I guess you
  • 00:26:03
    can learn a bit his history through that
  • 00:26:05
    as well without the froze um are you can
  • 00:26:09
    be like amusement parks yeah I agree
  • 00:26:12
    with your to be honest especially with
  • 00:26:13
    if you're with the kids as
  • 00:26:15
    well yeah
  • 00:26:17
    definitely so do you prefer DIY to do it
  • 00:26:21
    yourself or hire a
  • 00:26:24
    professional
  • 00:26:26
    DIY perfect I did say there will be two
  • 00:26:29
    more questions but I'll fit one more in
  • 00:26:31
    would you prefer to own your own private
  • 00:26:33
    island or a private jet Private
  • 00:26:37
    Island definitely um that's interesting
  • 00:26:39
    I must say got brilliant answers there
  • 00:26:41
    we definitely got more of a glimpse into
  • 00:26:43
    yourself elor and as we like to keep the
  • 00:26:45
    collaborative nature on the podcast we
  • 00:26:47
    always ask a question from one guest to
  • 00:26:49
    another so our previous guest is a
  • 00:26:51
    gentleman called Amin Rabino he's the
  • 00:26:54
    founder of gandro AI and he's asked if
  • 00:26:57
    you wake up one morning and you see your
  • 00:26:59
    bank balance on zero what's the first
  • 00:27:02
    thing you would
  • 00:27:04
    do I'd start um I'd start uh devising a
  • 00:27:09
    plan of um how do I get out of the
  • 00:27:12
    situation so um I think it will consist
  • 00:27:16
    of um initially like emergency uh reach
  • 00:27:20
    out to friends and family um who I I'm
  • 00:27:24
    fortunate to have um who would help in
  • 00:27:27
    the term and and then start uh making uh
  • 00:27:32
    my way towards how do I um uh you know
  • 00:27:35
    start bringing some money in into the
  • 00:27:37
    account um so how did it happen that I
  • 00:27:40
    have a
  • 00:27:41
    zero yeah I guess the emergency fun will
  • 00:27:44
    definitely be needed first but yeah the
  • 00:27:46
    planning's the right way to go um so
  • 00:27:48
    what would your question be for our next
  • 00:27:50
    guest who's a gentleman called Dan gaina
  • 00:27:53
    um he's actually we founded a company
  • 00:27:55
    called kelp and now they've been
  • 00:27:57
    acquired by signal AI where he is also
  • 00:27:59
    resumed control but yeah what would your
  • 00:28:02
    question be for
  • 00:28:04
    him well my question would be for him as
  • 00:28:07
    someone who is working on AI is um what
  • 00:28:12
    is he doing about uh AI
  • 00:28:16
    safety uh and ensuring responsible AI um
  • 00:28:22
    development um I think this is an
  • 00:28:24
    important uh question for anyone who's
  • 00:28:28
    working on AI to to think about
  • 00:28:32
    definitely and as they say great minds
  • 00:28:34
    think Al because I already had that
  • 00:28:35
    question to ask him but I'll be sure to
  • 00:28:37
    remove my one replace it and put your
  • 00:28:39
    one as the question to ask him
  • 00:28:41
    definitely before we wrap up Ela are you
  • 00:28:43
    able to share where our listeners can
  • 00:28:45
    learn more about you your work and real
  • 00:28:48
    eyes sure um well I'm I'm personally not
  • 00:28:52
    a very public person just from the
  • 00:28:54
    personality point of view um I do write
  • 00:28:57
    some s uh or or share some of our
  • 00:29:00
    company updates on LinkedIn um and uh
  • 00:29:04
    generally you know all my work goes goes
  • 00:29:07
    into the um the realize that that uh I'm
  • 00:29:11
    working with a great team on and so all
  • 00:29:14
    the updates that we are releasing as a
  • 00:29:17
    company are the ones where I tend to
  • 00:29:20
    think that I'm also contributing
  • 00:29:23
    to Brant Brant I'll be sure to include
  • 00:29:26
    your information in the about us and
  • 00:29:29
    below the podcast video as well on
  • 00:29:31
    YouTube and also on Spotify and apple
  • 00:29:33
    but thank you so much elor for joining
  • 00:29:35
    us today on a SAS leaders Lounge podcast
  • 00:29:37
    and sharing your insights into the
  • 00:29:39
    fascinating world of emotion AI it's
  • 00:29:41
    been a truly enlightening conversation
  • 00:29:43
    especially to myself to our listeners
  • 00:29:46
    thank you very much for tuning in be
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    the boundaries of innovation and
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    Leadership goodbye for now thank you so
  • 00:29:59
    much for your time Ela take care
  • 00:30:01
    pleasure pleasure talking to you morning
  • 00:30:03
    bye-bye thanks
  • 00:30:12
    [Music]
  • 00:30:19
    byebye
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