MIT Students Use GIFs to Teach Computers Emotion

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many is a GIF worth? We may be about to find out

Two graduate students at the MIT Media Lab aim to create a text-to-GIF translator, as part of an ongoing project, one which could also reveal cultural differences regarding emotions.

Kevin Hu and Travis Rich created a website called GIFGIF, which presents users with two GIFs at a time and asks them to choose which better expresses one of 17 emotions (such as contempt, pleasure or surprise). There are currently approximately 4,000 GIFs in the GIFGIF system. Read more...