Do you think AI can truly understand human emotions?

Current AIs surely not. To truly understand a conscious experience like an emotion, the AI would need to know how it is like to have that experience. Which again means that it would need to be able to have that experience itself. But current AIs do not model the processes that lead to emotions in humans, at least surely not completely enough, and not in sufficient detail. So even if functionalism is true and current AIs have some form of consciousness, it still seems impossible that they truly understand human emotions.

Human emotions are diverse and complex. While AI can be trained to analyze vast amounts of data to predict emotional responses, it cannot offer true emotional understanding, as it doesn’t experience emotions itself.

As of today I think it's quite bad. But for sure it's going to get better. No doubt!

AI can't understand emotions. It can identify them based on certain criteria and respond accordingly, based on the algorithms it's programmed with.

AI uses techniques like natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to detect sentiment from text and audio. While it can parse emotional indicators like tone or key phrases, achieving a nuanced understanding requires further advances in contextual AI and affective computing but we're getting there day by day