Transcript: He Built an AI Model That Can Decode Your Emotions
‘How Do You Use ChatGPT?’ with Alan Cowen
Apr 24, 2024 · 41 min readUpdated Jul 25, 2026
The transcript of How Do You Use ChatGPT? with Alan Cowen is below for paying subscribers.
- Dan tells Hume’s empathetic AI model a secret: 00:00:00
- Introduction: 00:01:13
- What traditional psychology tells us about emotions: 00:10:17
- Alan’s radical approach to studying human emotion: 00:13:46
- Methods that Hume’s AI model uses to understand emotion: 00:16:46
- How the model accounts for individual differences: 00:21:08
- Dan’s pet theory on why it’s been hard to make progress in psychology: 00:27:19
- The ways in which Alan thinks Hume can be used: 00:38:12
- How Alan is thinking about the API v. consumer product question: 00:41:22
- 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.