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Get H-app-Y – how AI could transform your wellbeing
A new idea from Laughology!
Laughology has developed a new AI-powered app that uses facial recognition and data from your emails and texts to determine how happy you are and provide a personally curated joke to cheer you up if you’re sad.
H-app-y links to other apps and utilities on your mobile phone and uses an algorithm to determine your mood. It can also be linked to smartwatches to monitor heart rhythm and temperature and assess your happiness level. If you choose the facial recognition option, H-app-y will also log your features for signs of happiness or sadness.
If you’re unhappy, it will send you jokes based on your personal sense of humour, which is assessed through an initial questionnaire and monitored constantly by analysing language used in emails and text messages.
Laughology has been working with data and AI scientist Professor Andrea O 'Lail at the University of Duper in Paris. Prof O'Lail said:
"Recent advances in artificial intelligence have allowed us to build an algorithm that is so personally attuned to you, your happiness level and your sense of humour that it's like having a jester in your pocket. We are so h-app-y to be working with Laughology on this project, and we can see so many applications for it in the future."
There are plans to integrate the software into electric cars to preempt road rage episodes, and the development team is also building a prototype full-body scanner that people can walk through, and that monitors their happiness levels and tells jokes or plays happy music or funny fart noises if the person being scanned is deemed to need cheering up. This could have applications in dental surgeries or business meetings.
Stephanie Davies, Head of Happiness at Laughology, said:
"It's always been our aim at Laughology to spread happiness, and now we have the means to truly democratise laughter for all. The app will be free, although you can subscribe to a premium package and receive more jokes. We hope it will become as popular as Facebook but without all the misinformation and conspiracies."
H-app-y is available on Android and iOS platforms.
