Rana el Kaliouby AI Emotional Intelligence and the Journey of Finding Oneself (#423)

“Embrace your feelings.”

– Rana el Kaliouby

A pioneer in Emotion AI, Rana el Kaliouby, PhD (@Kaliouby), is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and writer of the brand new e-book Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology.

A passionate advocate for humanizing know-how, ethics in AI, and variety, Rana has been acknowledged on Fortune journal’s 40 Underneath 40 listing and as one in every of Forbes journal’s Prime 50 Ladies in Tech. Rana is a World Financial Discussion board Younger International Chief and a newly minted Younger Presidents’ Group member. She co-hosted the PBS collection NOVA Wonders, and seems within the YouTube Originals Collection The Age of A.I. hosted by Robert Downey, Jr.

Rana holds a PhD from the College of Cambridge and did her postdoctoral analysis at MIT.

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

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• Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology by Rana el Kaliouby and Carol Colman
• Affectiva
• The World Economic Forum
• NOVA Wonders
• The Age of AI
• Affective Computing by Rosalind W. Picard
• American University in Cairo
• University of Cambridge
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 87% of Egyptian Men Believe Women’s Basic Role Is to Be Housewives: Study, Egypt Impartial
• Four Women On What Their Hijab Means to Them, Attract
• Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, BBC Information
• Emotion AI Overview, Affectiva
• What is Emotional Intelligence (EQ)?, Psych Central
• Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms and Causes, The Mayo Clinic
• Google Glass
• Brain Power
• Objectified
• frog Design
• ‘Perfect Storm’: Parkinson’s Disease May Worsen Depression, NBC Information
• Tesla Promises ‘One Million Robo-Taxis’ in 2020, Engadget
• The Definitive Guide to Reading Facial Microexpressions, Science of Individuals
• Would You Pull the Trolley Switch? Does it Matter?, The Atlantic
• Sand Hill Road is Now the Wall Street of the West Coast, Redwhale
• Iron Bank of Braavos, Recreation of Thrones Wiki
• Wallenberg Family of Sweden
• Kleiner Perkins
• Spotify Turns Our Emotions into Data, and Then Profits Off of Them, The Hustle
• Horizons Ventures
• Predicting Divorce From The First 3 Minutes of Conflict Discussion, The Gottman Institute
• Day One
• The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Vacation
• The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), CDC
• Little, Big by John Crowley
• His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• What Is Imposter Syndrome and How Can You Combat It? by Elizabeth Cox, TED-Ed
• Qalyubia Governorate, Wikipedia

SHOW NOTES

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• How did the e-book Affective Computing by Rosalind Picard — and assembly the writer — change Rana’s life?
• How did Rana handle to stay in Cairo with a husband and two children and commute to her job in Boston?
• Rana offers us a glimpse of her household life rising up in Egypt.
• What prompted Rana’s determination to put on a hijab in her 20s, and why did she ultimately cease?
• How does Rana outline synthetic intelligence, and why is she an advocate for bringing EQ into the equation?
• What led Rana to work with synthetic intelligence on a extra human degree, and the way can it’s used to assist people who find themselves on the autism spectrum?
• In what methods does Rana foresee this know-how serving to within the psychological well being area — notably for folks affected by despair?
• What different functions is Rana excited to discover with facial mapping know-how?
• How does Rana really feel concerning the potential for this know-how for use as a lie-detector check?
• What has Rana realized about her personal feelings within the means of making an attempt to show computer systems easy methods to perceive feelings?
• What frequent misconceptions do folks have about emotion, and the way has speaking about it developed over the previous few many years?
• What it was like for Rana and Roz to pitch to potential buyers for Affectiva within the male-dominated world of Silicon Valley — with Rana’s six-month-old in tow.
• The place did funding ultimately come from, and the way enthusiastic had been the buyers who mentioned sure?
• How may this know-how be used for courting?
• Rana shares her journaling instruments and habits.
• Books Rana presents most and recommends (and one I’m having fun with in the meanwhile).
• What compelled Rana to put in writing Woman Decoded, and what did she be taught in the midst of writing it?
• What about Rana’s relationship together with her father has gone unsaid that she’d wish to convey to him?
• What would it not take for Rana to think about Woman Decoded a hit?
• Why variety in knowledge assortment and ethics in tech are essential.
• What would Rana’s billboard say?
• Parting ideas.

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