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We have a great show today going into one of the more interesting and emerging areas of AI research and application.

I think it's going to be fascinating. We're probably going to see this stuff packed into basically every AI that we touch going forward.

And we're going to speak with somebody who's really at the

cutting edge of where this is all going. Alan Cowan is here. He is the CEO and founder of Yume AI,

which is a company with a bot that we've talked about on the show here in the past, one that

can sense the emotion in your voice and reply in kind. It's very fascinating. And I cannot tell you how excited

I am to have Alan on the show. Alan, welcome to Big Technology. Hi, Alex. Thanks for having me on the show.

We're going to speak with Dwarquish Patel in the next couple of weeks, but he had a podcast episode

with Mark Zuckerberg basically right around the introduction of Lama 3, and they were

talking about the cutting edge of AI research.

And Zuckerberg says emotional AI, for some reason, is something that I don't think a lot

of people are paying attention to, but there's a lot of potential there.

One modality that I'm pretty focused on that I haven't seen as many other people in the

industry focus on this is sort of like emotional understanding.

Like I mean, so much of the human brain is just dedicated to understanding people and

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