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AI weighs in on debate about universal facial expressions

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Nature 589, 202-203 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03509-5

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  • Correction 21 January 2021: The original version of this News & Views described a control experiment as assessing the raters; instead it assessed the DNN.

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