Anything is optimal given the right criteria: What are the optimal criteria as we invent the future of AI?

This talk explores this question with a series of stories including the development of affective computing, inspired in part by how the human brain uses emotion to help signal what matters to a person. One of these types of signals can be measured on the surface of the skin and has contributed to today’s AI+wearable technology helping save lives. As artificial emotional intelligence abilities grow, what have we learned about how to build optimal AI to engineer a future for people that is truly better?

Hint: It's unlikely to be achieved with scaling up today's models.