Dr Alan Cowen is an applied mathematician and computational emotion scientist. Bet you didn’t even know “computational emotion scientist” was a thing!

Dr Cowen’s work at Hume AI and The Hume Initiative centers around building artificial intelligence to serve human goals and emotional well-being, and charting an ethical path for empathic AI. What does that mean? For starters, it could mean digital assistants like Alexa and Siri the ability to recognize our emotions, and respond appropriately. But down the line, when those assistants are less like disembodied voices and more like high-res 3D characters in the metaverse? I, for one, sure hope they can tell how I’m feeling and react with empathy. Dig into the science of how and why that just might be where we’re headed, in this episode of Meta-Averse.

Learn More about Hume:

Hume AI Website

Hume AI Discovery Lab

The Hume Initiative Website

The Feelings Lab Podcast

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