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Explore the transformative rise of Human-Centric AI in this compelling 26-minute keynote presentation by Professor Björn Schuller from Technical University of Munich. Delve into how artificial intelligence is evolving beyond technical optimization to truly understand, interact, and collaborate with humans empathetically through advances in Deep Learning, Affective Computing, and Human-Computer Interaction. Discover how AI systems are becoming capable of recognizing and responding to human emotions, social cues, and physiological signals, revolutionizing fields such as communication, healthcare, and psychological diagnostics while fostering genuine trust and companionship between humans and machines. Learn about the emergence of emotion-aware AI through large language and multimodal models, applications in sentiment analysis and mental health, cutting-edge research in emotion recognition from speech and facial expressions, and the challenges of embedding warmth and humor into AI systems. Examine the ethical, societal, and technical hurdles for building responsible empathetic AI, and explore future applications in therapy, marriage counseling, language learning, and well-being as AI transitions from mere computation to genuine human connection.
