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This New Tech Puts AI In Touch With Its Emotions—and Yours
Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice.
During interactions, Hume’s developer interface will show values indicating a measure of things like “determination,” “anxiety,” and “happiness” in the users’ voice. The idea of recognizing, measuring, and simulating human emotion in technological systems goes back decades and is studied in a field known as “ affective computing,” a term introduced by Rosalind Picard, a professor at the MIT Media Lab, in the 1990s. Albert Salah, a professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands who studies affective computing, is impressed with Hume AI’s technology and recently demonstrated it to his students.
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