AI companies want to use improv actors to train AI on human emotion

““Handshake AI is inviting actors, improvisers, and performers to join a paid, collaborative improv project to work with one of the leading AI companies,” the job description says, promising participants will be “matched with other performers over video and given a light prompt or scenario to explore together.” The job listing calls for people with a background in acting, improv, sketch, or theater work of any kind, and it takes pains to imply — multiple times — that it’s looking for people who can essentially “test the limits of the world’s top LLMs’ understanding” by teaching the models how to recognize or replicate human tone and emotions. “Emotional awareness” is one of the requirements, for instance, specifically the “ability to recognize, express, and shift between emotions in a way that feels authentic and human.” The job listing also called for “interactions that feel grounded, human, and fun to play.””

Source : AI companies want to use improv actors to train AI on human emotion | The Verge