On Emotionally Intelligent AI (with Chris Gagne, Hume AI)
Thinking Machines: AI & Philosophy · Chris Gagne, Daniel Reid Cahn
April 19, 202439m 53s
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Show Notes
Chris Gagne manages AI research at Hume, which just released an expressive text-to-speech model in a super impressive demo. Chris and Daniel discuss AI and emotional understanding:
- How does “prosody” add a dimension to human communication? What is Hume hoping to gain by adding it to Human-AI communication?
- Do we want to interact with AI like we interact with humans? Or should the interaction models be different?
- Are we entering the Uncanny Valley phase of emotionally intelligent AI?
- Do LLMs actually have the ability to reason about emotions? Does it matter?
- What do we risk, by empowering AI with emotional understanding? Are there risks from deception and manipulation? Or even a loss of human agency?
Topics
machine learningartificial intelligenceAIMLhumeemotionprosodyemotional intelligence