Transcript: He Built an AI Model That Can Decode Your Emotions

‘How Do You Use ChatGPT?’ with Alan Cowen

The transcript of How Do You Use ChatGPT? with Alan Cowen is below for paying subscribers.

Timestamps

  1. Dan tells Hume’s empathetic AI model a secret: 00:00:00
  2. Introduction: 00:01:13
  3. What traditional psychology tells us about emotions: 00:10:17
  4. Alan’s radical approach to studying human emotion: 00:13:46 
  5. Methods that Hume’s AI model uses to understand emotion: 00:16:46 
  6. How the model accounts for individual differences: 00:21:08
  7. Dan’s pet theory on why it’s been hard to make progress in psychology: 00:27:19
  8. The ways in which Alan thinks Hume can be used: 00:38:12
  9. How Alan is thinking about the API v. consumer product question: 00:41:22
  10. Ethical concerns around developing AI that can interpret human emotion: 00:44:42

Transcript

Dan Shipper (00:01:14)

Alan, welcome to the show. That was kind of incredible, actually. Tell me what I just experienced.

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