A video interview with Prof. Markus Gross, computer scientist at ETH Zurich and Director of the Disney Research Lab in Zurich

Artificial intelligence is part of the digitization of the world, as is the smartphone in your pocket. In the future, AI should accompany us through life just as closely. But for that to happen, AI needs to do more than help get our error-prone thinking on the rails. It has to understand how we humans "tick" – i.e. it must learn to read our emotions.