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In society today us humans often have trouble with reading another person's emotions, we tend to think the person is happy when they're truly mad. Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, has made a computer software with a feature able to scan one's face and present its facial expressions. Although this idea may seem like a technological breakthrough, think of the pros and the cons. The disadvantages out-weigh the benefits in this idea, thinking you know one's emotions because of a machine created by imperfect humans does not mean it is one hundred percent correct.

Computers will never be humans, they will never have the human qualities we have. Thomas says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" (D'Alto 6). What if the student isnt really bored like the machine thinks? The machine will make a false adjustment that could do the complete opposite of what the kids wanted. Some deceitful kids could out-smart the machine and fake boredom all the time to make the machine adjust and change everything. Not only that, different kids won't have the same emotion. If half the class is bored and half is having fun, what will the machine do then?

Although Thomas thinks he knows every expression and how to get anyone's true expressions, he is mistaken. All humans have different shapes, sizes, colors, and abilities. This machine will never be able to guess true emotions. Humans express things in totally opposite ways. Altough Mona Lise looks happy in the picture, she could really be faking it. The only correct way to know one's true emotions is not by calculating percentages with a machine, its by expressing your feelings to one another. I can see what's going on in this world, we rely and dwell on technology. As a planet we really do not have enough good quality human interactions, so why improve communication between people and computers as thomas says. Humans are constantly competing and at war, adding this technology will just be giving humans excuses and false assumptions. We should start on using technology to improve human interactions instead of using technology to improve our human interactions.

Basing a decision off of an imperfect machine will get you nowhere but making false assumptions and incorrect decisions. Not everyone is the same, nor will they ever be. Expressing your true feelings through words is better than a machine thinking someone feels a certain way. Also, not everyone feels the same way and this machine will cause trouble if a person purposely changes a way they look. This idea will never work because us humans are not all nice people. Men and women need to work on communicating with other humans and not technology. Countries are at war and some people are worrying about creating technology to better computer and human communication. Differences, deception, irresponsibility and disrespectfulness amongst humans are why this idea of reading one's emotions will never work and will constantly make errors leading to a downfall in our society.

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