Algorithms · December 2019Gaffe level: Typo
Emotion Recognition Pseudoscience Is
An AI research institute called for emotion recognition technology to be banned, saying reading feelings from faces is junk science. Your resting face is not a crime.
Source: MIT Technology Review
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice