AI Demos: AI that interprets human emotion, Hugging Face Assistants, and more! | E1894
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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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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| 0:00.0 | 11 labs, text to speech, geepty. |
| 0:03.4 | Correct. |
| 0:04.4 | It generated story for me, then convert it to an audio book, two paragraphs. |
| 0:08.3 | Yes, wow. |
| 0:09.3 | And then see, the first thing it did was it came back to me, so what's the voice that you want to do it in and I picked Jarvis? |
| 0:15.1 | And so then it did the story for me and then it generated the audio and if I go over here now the story that was generated I can play it and let's listen. |
| 0:24.5 | Metropolis beneath the shadow of towering skyscrapers lay a quaint little bookstore |
| 0:30.0 | that seemed almost forgotten by time. |
| 0:32.4 | So that's Jarvis forgotten by time. |
| 0:33.0 | So that's Jarvis from Iron Man. |
| 0:35.8 | Avengers, Iron Man, yeah, I'm not sure where you made his debut. |
| 0:38.4 | Wow, that's wild. |
| 0:41.2 | This week in startups is brought to you by Squarespace. Turn your idea into a new website. |
| 0:47.0 | Go to Squarespace.com slash Twist for a free trial. |
| 0:51.0 | When you're ready to launch, use offer code twist to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. |
| 0:57.0 | Gust, though, is easy online payroll, benefits, and HR built for modern small businesses. |
| 1:04.0 | Get three months free when you run your first payroll at gusto.com slash twist. |
| 1:09.0 | And LinkedIn Jobs. A business is only as strong as its people and every hire matters. |
| 1:16.7 | Post your first job for free at LinkedIn.com slash Twist. |
| 1:21.3 | All right everybody, welcome back to this week in startups. |
| 1:24.6 | And I've got my good friend, my besty. |
| 1:27.1 | Sundeep Madra here, he goes by Sunny. |
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