The Feelings Lab

Join Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen and podcast host Matt Forte as they venture through the best pod-listener questions we've received so far this season: a veritable emotion science "mailbag." Can people who understand the emotions of others better interpret emotions conveyed through music? How should we responsibly address the ethics around emotion AI data collection and usage? Is there a healthy level of emotional expressivity conducive to emotional well-being? Are video calls bad for brainstorming? Do lobsters or hermit crabs have feelings? Tune in to hear the answer to these questions and more.

**Stories discussed in this episode**

Research shows the role empathy may play in music

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220511102807.htm

Why video calls are bad for brainstorming

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01183-3

The inner life of a lobster: Do invertebrates have emotions?

https://bigthink.com/life/do-invertebrates-have-emotions/

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The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We’ll discover how scientists and technologists are integrating empathy into social media tools, robots, digital art, and more, with the goal of building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Each week, join our panel of expert hosts, and emotionally attuned guests, to learn how empathic technologies are shaping the modern world.

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About Hume AI: Hume AI is an AI research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that future technology is built to serve our emotions, ensuring that as AI gets smarter it remains aligned with our goals.

Join Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, Dr. Daniel Barron, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and Director of the Pain Intervention & Digital Research Program, and Matt Forte as they discuss pain and personalized medicine. Different people express and describe their pain differently, but how these signals are understood can have life-altering implications. We discuss the different kinds of pain: acute vs. chronic pain, central vs. peripheral, the enigma of phantom limb pain, and how physicians evaluate pain syndromes and their treatment. Can pain be measured objectively? Is there a role for quantitative tools in treating pain? Can AI help us reduce bias in how pain is diagnosed and treated?

The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We’ll discover how scientists and technologists are integrating empathy into social media tools, robots, digital art, and more, with the goal of building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Each week, join our panel of expert hosts, and emotionally attuned guests, to learn how empathic technologies are shaping the modern world.

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If you have any questions you’d like answered in an upcoming episode, feel free to send them to [email protected].

About Hume AI: Hume AI is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.

Join Dr. Alan Cowen, CEO of Hume, and dscout CEO Michael Winnick with host Matt Forte as they discuss Empathy and User Research. How can we foster empathy with users at the speed and scale needed to drive innovation in AI? How does empathy help researchers design products and product experiences? How can we get “out of the lab” to study the messy reality of user experience in the real world? How can technology strengthen human bonds and connections, not replace them?

The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We’ll discover how scientists and technologists are integrating empathy into social media tools, robots, digital art, and more, with the goal of building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Each week, join our panel of expert hosts, and emotionally attuned guests, to learn how empathic technologies are shaping the modern world.

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If you have any questions you’d like answered in an upcoming episode, feel free to send them to [email protected].

About Hume AI: Hume AI is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.

Join us for our podcast on expressive vocalizations and machine learning, where we discuss the powerful, contagious non-word utterances like yelps, laughs, and sighs that play a critical role in our social and emotional lives and provide new channels for human-computer interaction. Our guests include Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, Creative Destruction Lab and DeepMind research scientist Dr. Kory Mathewson, Dr. Gauthier Gidel, professor at the Université de Montréal and Mila faculty member, and Hume AI Research Scientists Dr. Panagiotis Tzirakis and Alice Baird.

Hume AI is proud to co-organize ICML's Expressive Vocalization (ExVo) Workshop and Competition. Bringing together leading emotion scientists and AI researchers, ExVo explores the machine learning problem of understanding and generating vocal bursts—a wide range of expressive nonverbal vocalizations such as laughs, sighs, grunts, cries, screams, oohs, ahhs, and huhs (to name but a few). The challenge is co-sponsored by Hume AI, Mila, and the National Film Board of Canada.

Competition info: https://www.competitions.hume.ai/exvo2022

The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We’ll discover how scientists and technologists are integrating empathy into social media tools, robots, digital art, and more, with the goal of building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Each week, join our panel of expert hosts, and emotionally attuned guests, to learn how empathic technologies are shaping the modern world.

Subscribe, and tell a friend to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Apple: apple.co/3iaXAO7

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Check us out at: hume.ai

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/hume-ai

YouTube: bit.ly/3zS3Ekq

If you have any questions you’d like answered in an upcoming episode, feel free to send them to [email protected].

About Hume AI: Hume AI is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.

Join Dr. Alan Cowen, CEO of Hume, and Kathy Tafel, Senior Director of Engineering at Artsy, as they discuss "Aesthetic Appreciation & Fine Art." What is aesthetic appreciation, and how does visual art evoke emotion? How close is AI to understanding our aesthetic feelings? Will AI bring art curation to the masses? Will AI ever be able to generate paintings on par with those of Rembrandt, Monet, and Frida Kahlo? Why is it that uniqueness and ownership imbue art with a special aura, and can NFTs really bring that aura to digital art? We debate how technology can bring more aesthetic appreciation into our digitally connected world.

The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We’ll discover how scientists and technologists are integrating empathy into social media tools, robots, digital art, and more, with the goal of building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Each week, join our panel of expert hosts, and emotionally attuned guests, to learn how empathic technologies are shaping the modern world.

Subscribe, and tell a friend to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Apple: apple.co/3iaXAO7

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Check us out at: hume.ai

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/hume-ai

YouTube: bit.ly/3zS3Ekq

If you have any questions you’d like answered in an upcoming episode, feel free to send them to [email protected].

About Hume AI: Hume AI is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.

Join Dr. Alan Cowen, CEO of Hume AI, and Arjun Nagedran, Co-Founder & CTO of Mursion, with Matt Forte in our episode on empathy and augmented reality (AR). We discuss how technology is poised to bring more empathy into the world, bridging physical, cultural, and demographic divides. Can augmented reality reveal and help us combat our prejudices? Can it serve as a liaison between people who communicate differently? Learn how companies like Mursion are already using AI-enhanced AR to coach people on how to be more empathic and communicate better in the workplace.

The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We’ll discover how scientists and technologists are integrating empathy into social media tools, robots, digital art, and more, with the goal of building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Each week, join our panel of expert hosts, and emotionally attuned guests, to learn how empathic technologies are shaping the modern world.

Subscribe, and tell a friend to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Apple: apple.co/3iaXAO7

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Check us out at: hume.ai

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/hume-ai

YouTube: bit.ly/3zS3Ekq

If you have any questions you’d like answered in an upcoming episode, feel free to send them to [email protected].

About Hume AI: Hume AI is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Dennis Wall, Professor at Stanford and founder of Cognoa, maker of the first FDA-approved AI-powered diagnosis method for autism, to discuss how empathic AI technologies are poised to transform healthcare. Join Dr. Wall, Dr. Alan Cowen, CEO of Hume, Dr. Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley, and Matt Forte as they discuss a future in which conditions like autism can be diagnosed efficiently at home, at a younger (more treatable) age, with the help of empathic AI and crowdsourced empathy. What will healthcare look like when AI-empowered doctors can treat exponentially more patients at a fraction of the current cost? How will AI bring more personalized, accurate diagnosis and treatment to broader, more diverse communities? We provide answers to these questions and more in our episode on Empathy and Digital Health.

The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We’ll discover how scientists and technologists are integrating empathy into social media tools, robots, digital art, and more, with the goal of building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Each week, join our panel of expert hosts, and emotionally attuned guests, to learn how empathic technologies are shaping the modern world.

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Check us out at: hume.ai

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/hume-ai

YouTube: bit.ly/3zS3Ekq

If you have any questions you’d like answered in an upcoming episode, feel free to send them to [email protected].

About Hume AI: Hume AI is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.

In a world where you can sketch a character and it will come to life, how will AI transform the arts? Join Dr. Alan Cowen, CEO of Hume, Richard Kerris, VP of Omniverse Platform Development at NVIDIA, and host Matt Forte as they discuss the present and future of “Awe in Digital Art.” How does art evoke emotion? Can AI help us unlock imaginative universes that allow us to experience the sublime in a newly immersive, personalized, and educational fashion? We discuss how AI tools that give individual artists the creative power of a movie studio will affect the future of art and entertainment, and whether we should grieve the extinction of physical puppets from films like Jurassic Park by Steven Spielberg.

Link mentioned in this episode:

NVIDIA Omniverse Marbles RTX Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0_NZDSqR3Y&t=2s

The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We’ll discover how scientists and technologists are integrating empathy into social media tools, robots, digital art, and more, with the goal of building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Each week, join our panel of expert hosts, and emotionally attuned guests, to learn how empathic technologies are shaping the modern world.

Subscribe, and tell a friend to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Apple: https://apple.co/3iaXAO7

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Check us out at: https://hume.ai

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hume-ai

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3zS3Ekq

If you have any questions you’d like answered in an upcoming episode, feel free to send them to [email protected].

About Hume AI: Hume AI is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.

In the Season 2 Premiere of The Feelings Lab, join Hume AI CEO, Dr. Alan Cowen and Embodied CEO, Dr. Paolo Pirjanian, with host Matt Forte as they discuss "Compassion and Robots." What will it take to assuage some people's fear of robots? Can robots empathize? Can they deliver therapies, aid in child development, and give us deeper insight into ourselves? We discuss what it will take to make robots compassionate, and how the future of AI may hinge on this central challenge.

The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We’ll discover how scientists and technologists are integrating empathy into social media tools, robots, digital art, and more, with the goal of building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Each week, join our panel of expert hosts, and emotionally attuned guests, to learn how empathic technologies are shaping the modern world.

Subscribe, and tell a friend to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Apple: https://apple.co/3iaXAO7

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Check us out at: https://hume.ai

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hume-ai

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3zS3Ekq

If you have any questions you’d like answered in an upcoming episode, feel free to send them to [email protected].

About Hume AI: Hume AI is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.

Join Hume AI CEO, Dr. Alan Cowen, and the President of Tawkify, Kellie Ammerman, with host Matt Forte as they discuss “Love and the Future of Dating.” Amid the pandemic, more people have turned to dating apps in search of meaningful relationships. In a world where AI curates our matches, is it possible for algorithms to optimize for deeper connections over shallow attractions? Perhaps a combination of AI and human matchmakers is necessary to help people find love more easily in this ever-changing landscape of dating.

The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We’ll discover how scientists and technologists are integrating empathy into social media tools, robots, digital art, and more, with the goal of building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Each week, join our panel of expert hosts, and emotionally attuned guests, to learn how empathic technologies are shaping the modern world.

Subscribe, and tell a friend to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Apple: https://apple.co/3iaXAO7

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3zM0lvh

Check us out at: https://hume.ai

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hume-ai

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3zS3Ekq

If you have any questions you’d like answered in an upcoming episode, feel free to send them to [email protected].

About Hume AI: Hume AI is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.