On Emotionally Intelligent AI (with Chris Gagne, Hume AI)

Thinking Machines: AI & Philosophy

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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?

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