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BUILDING AN AI THAT FEELS-AI systems with emotional intelligence could learn faster and be more helpful.

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Review by Abhoy Biswas  (Btech Undergrad) IN THE PAST YEAR,  have you found yourself under stress? Have you ever wished for help coping? Imagine if, throughout the pandemic, you'd had a virtual therapist powered by an artificial intelligence (AI) system, an entity that empathized with you and gradually got to know your moods and behaviors. Therapy is just one area where we think an AI system that can recognize and interpret emotions could offer great benefits to people.             AI powered humanoid Our team hails from Microsoft's  Human Understanding and Empathy  group, where our mission is to imbue technology with emotional intelligence. Why? With that quality, AI can better understand its users, more effectively communicate with them, and improve their interactions with technology. The effort to produce emotionally intelligent AI builds on work in psychology, neuroscience, human-computer interaction, linguistics, electrical engineering, and machine

8 Dutch Landscape Painters of the 17th century.

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8 Dutch Landscape Painters of the 17th century During the 17th century, landscape painting became a popular genre. Dutch painters showed unprecedented interest and made it an autonomous subject in painting. Oct 20, 2021 • By  Stella Polyzoidou , BA Archaeology and Art History Landscape painting was one of the favorite genres in 17th-century art. It emerged from the Dutch Republic, which declared independence from Spain in 1648. The growth of capitalism and the wealth of the country in the need for a new national identity led to a revolution in painting, known as the Dutch Golden Age. Many Dutch painters were known for their realistic depictions of landscapes that were distinctly different from earlier periods. Dutch landscape painting is overall characterized by dramatic contrasts of light and shadow, cold and warm colors, calm and turbulent emotions, solid and liquid elements, and static and dynamic energy. Winter landscapes, sunsets, rural scenes with animals, seas, rivers, city land

Women’s Fashion: What Did Women Wear In Ancient Greece?

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Women’s Fashion: What Did Women Wear In Ancient Greece? In ancient Greek society, women's fashion was associated with the prevailing historical, social, economic, and cultural conditions. Let’s discover the fashion evolution in the woman's private and public life . Fashion followed the social evolution of women and concluded to characterize them within society. In the male-dominated society of ancient Greece, women were meant to become good wives, run the household and bear an heir. However, some elite women managed to break the social norms and cultivated independence of thought. They expressed their creativity through garments but also through jewelry, hairstyles, and cosmetics. Clothing served as decoration and signaled the status of a woman. Besides the functionality of clothes, women’s fashion was used as a way to communicate social identities like gender, status, and ethnicity .   Colors & Textiles In Women’s Fashion  Much of our knowledge of ancient greek