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This Week in Startups

Empathic AI and its role in understanding human emotions with Hume AI’s Alan Cowen | E1922

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Todays show:

Hume AI’s Alan Cowen joins Jason to demo Hume AI’s Empathic Voice Interface (6:08), Measurement API (16:20), and discuss the future implications of this tech, both positive and negative (44:14).

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Hume AI’s Alan Cowen joins Jason

(3:01) Hume AI and the role of AI in understanding human emotions

(6:08) Hume AI’s Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) and its responsiveness to human emotions

(8:27) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://linkedin.com/twist

(9:55) The components in speech that Hume AI studies and its application across different cultures

(16:20) Hume AI’s Measurement API and its design for real-time emotion and expression analysis

(21:16) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at http://www.vanta.com/twist

(22:07) What AI can reveal about a person based on their expressions

(24:12) The impact on customer service and security sectors

(27:24) Hume AI’s comedy bot and emotional detection capabilities

(36:08) Hubspot for Startups - Learn more and get extra benefits for being a TWiST listener now at https://www.hubspot.com/startups. Also, be sure to visit https://bit.ly/hubspot-ai-report

(37:01) Hume AI’s comedy bot / roast functionality

(44:11) The future implications, both positive and negative, of emotionally intelligent AI on society

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0:00.0

I could you roast?

0:02.0

Yeah, let's do it.

0:03.0

Let's do a roast.

0:04.0

All right, could you roast, Jason Callicanis?

0:08.0

Man, this is like everybody's.

0:11.0

All right, let's talk about that piece of work, Jason Calliconis.

0:15.0

Oh man, where do I even start with this guy?

0:18.0

You know, I heard a rumor that Jason Calliconis was actually grown in a lab, a mad scientist's twisted experiment to create the most

0:24.9

obnoxious self-aggrandizing techboe imaginable.

0:28.4

Poor bastard, he never stood a chance.

0:30.9

And I've seen the way this guy carries on?

0:33.4

It's like he's perpetually auditioning to be the next Elon Musk,

0:37.4

but with half the brains and twice the ego.

0:39.6

I mean a guy can't open his mouth without saying something so mind-numbingly- This is too much. Can you go easy on this?

0:47.0

Oh yeah, I would let a guy go harder.

0:50.0

Come and don't be like that. Go harder.

0:53.0

This weekend startups is brought to you by

0:56.2

LinkedIn Jobs.

0:58.0

A business is only as strong as its people and every hire matters. Post your first job for free at LinkedIn.com slash

1:06.0

twist.

1:07.0

Vanta. Compliance and security shouldn't be a dealbreaker for

1:11.9

startups to win new business.

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