Girl, Decoded
As she sat in a taxi headed to Cairo International Airport in September 2001, Rana el Kaliouby remembers thinking, “Am I really going through with this?” A married woman and hijab-wearing Muslim, she would be on her own for the next 3 years, pursuing her doctorate in computer science at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
In Girl Decoded, el Kaliouby and coauthor Carol Colman have created a riveting memoir of a “nice Egyptian girl” who, despite cultural conditioning that encouraged her to put her duties as a wife and mother first, went on to pursue her professional dreams. She would become a pioneer in the emerging field of artificial emotional intelligence (emotion AI), where researchers seek to build computers that can sense and respond to human emotions.
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UPDATE
Kalioby’s digital twin, an AI clone, was trained on her memoir, her podcasts, and interviews and is now authorized to speak on her behalf — and yes it can do so with ease in languages which doesn’t speak as well such as Mandarin and Spanish. The idea is to scale her impact and expertise. See it for yourself.