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May 2024
56m 48s

Teaching AI To Read Our Emotions — With ...

Alex Kantrowitz
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Alan Cowen is the CEO and founder Hume AI. Cowen joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how his company is building emotional intelligence into AI systems. In this conversation, we examine why AI needs to learn how to read emotion, not just the literal text, and examine at how Hume does that with voice and facial expressions. In the first half, we discuss t ... Show More
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