Hume AI
Summary
Bob Dylans song Like A Rolling Stone contains the famous chorus: How does it feel?This line heralded a generation of music, art, and science that tackled the messiness and complexity of human feeling with an intensely directed focus.The emphasis on emotion eventually reached the tech world, too, giving rise to a focus on user experience and emotional design.But increasingly, user experience is shaped not just by human designers with empathy, but by artificial intelligence with no inherent concern for the multitude of our emotions. As AI technology begins to shape every aspect of our lives, can we ensure that it cultivates our emotional well-being as a fundamental, overriding objective? Can we optimize algorithms for our happiness and satisfaction as opposed to the engagement-driven methods that drive many applications today?Hume AI believes we can. The company aims to do for AI technology what Bob Dylan did for music: endow it with EQ and concern for human well-being. The toolkit contains a comprehensive set of AI tools for understanding vocal and nonverbal communication models that capture and integrate hundreds of expressive signals in the face and body, language and voice.