Affective Computing

This book by Rosalind Picard has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Rana el Kaliouby. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2019-06-17 and the most recent from 2020-04-21. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

According to Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have and express emotions. Part 1 of this book provides the intellectual framework for affective computing. Part 2 discusses the design and construction of affective computers.