EB-5: The SuperPersuader
building the foundation model for human emotion
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Who
Alan Cowen (LinkedIn), Founder, Chief Scientist and CEO of Hume AI, an empathic AI to serve human well-being.
Alan is an emotion scientist who previously worked as a researcher at Google and UC Berkeley.
He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Berkeley and has conducted research on how emotional behaviors can be measured, predicted, and translated using computational methods.
What
Hume has developed an "empathic large language model" (eLLM) that is trained on millions of human interactions to measure and understand nuanced emotional expressions in audio, video, and images.
Goal is to optimize AI for human well-being by making it more emotionally fluent
Hume provides an emotion interface layer for developers to customize on top of language AIs Released voice-based Empathic AI API that links language understanding, expression measurement, and text-to-speech
First product, an emot…
