ScienceTuesday: Analysing AI’s Ability to Process Human Emotions Through Film Reviews

ScienceTuesday: Analysing AI’s Ability to Process Human Emotions Through Film Reviews

📅 Tuesday, 4 November 2025
🕑 1.30 pm to 2.15 pm
📍 Online (BBB)

Aura Martinez’s study examines the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret human emotions expressed in film reviews. Using natural language processing (NLP), the research evaluates whether AI can detect basic emotions as well as more nuanced affective states, including irony, sarcasm and subjectivity. A comparative analysis between AI predictions and human assessments is carried out to identify differences in accuracy and depth of understanding. The study also investigates potential limitations and errors in AI’s processing of emotions, highlighting the challenges involved in interpreting complex human emotional expressions. The findings aim to clarify both the capabilities and limitations of current AI systems in recognising emotions within cultural and artistic texts, providing insights for future applications in sentiment analysis and human-computer interaction.