In Russia, they created an AI capable of reading and analyzing the emotions of students in the classroom

Artificial intelligence was created as an experiment: it will be tested during the mode

distance learning for students and schoolchildren, which the Ministry of Education and Science introduced on March 16.

The machine learning that underliessystems, by facial expressions it is able to determine what emotions a student experiences in real time: happiness (activity), sadness (boredom) and a neutral state. In addition, AI evaluates the voice timbre - this feature was introduced due to the fact that many students do not include video during distance learning.

"The purpose of the experiment is to determine the interest of students in order to help teachers create an assessment system for conducting distance classes.In addition, thanks to this analysis, they will be able to see, does not loseIf the audience is interested in the subject, and re-engage them in the learning process"

Ilya Mirin, Director, FEFU School of Digital Economy

Now the experiment is conducted with the participation ofFEFU students in a limited number of classes. In the future, the system can be extended to the entire university and will facilitate the learning process for teachers and make it better, the university’s press service added.

Earlier, a group of scientists from the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), together with colleagues from Kazakhstan and Brazil, created a way to build a road base from hazardous industrial waste.