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Todays show:
Sunny Madra joins Jason to demo an AI that analyzes human expression (2:07), a generative gaming platform (23:26), Hugging Faces Assistants (39:12), and much more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason
(2:07) Hume AI - AI toolkit to measure, understand, and improve how technology affects human emotion
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(7:57) Hume AI demo continued
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(20:25) AI Bet Update - Small model deployed on iphone/android
(23:26) FRVR AI - Generative AI to streamline game creation
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(35:19) Calling GPTS with @
(39:12) Hugging Face Assistants - LLM-powered assistants specialized in the Hugging Face ecosystem
(45:05) Eleven Labs ChatGPT
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Mentioned on the show:
Hume: https://beta.hume.ai
FRVR: https://beta.frvr.ai
Hugging Face Assistants: https://huggingface.co/chat/assistants
Eleven Labs ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-h0lbLuFF1-elevenlabs-text-to-speechhttps://twitter.com/dnystedt/status/1754323506056266149
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3vzKTE0O8
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