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Alan Cowen

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Alan Cowen

@AlanCowen

Director, Gemini Audio @GoogleDeepMind. Founder @Hume_AI. Teaching AI to make people happy.

Joined February 2015

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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Jan 24
Life update: I’m now at @GoogleDeepMind Feels surreal to not be at @hume_ai anymore, but the team there is in an incredible position to continue advancing cutting edge voice AI research. There are changes coming in how people interact with AI. There are changes coming in how
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Nov 24, 2023
Replying to @vivafalastin
Cuz they stabbed people
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Apr 23, 2024
Replying to @paulg and @markessien
this test is mostly pseudoscience. it does, however, tell you whether the explanations you weave for a highly isolated/ambiguous expression are similar to the norm, which you might notice varies substantially by perceived gender
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Mar 2, 2023
Replying to @paulg
I can’t imagine apps that compel young children to post images of themselves publicly and get evaluated every day by thousands of people they barely know would have anything to do with this
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Oct 28, 2023
Replying to @MrAndyNgo
People seem to forget that peace protests don’t glorify martyrdom in combat
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Feb 15, 2024
Replying to @paulg
Until recently social science was mostly a process of making up just-so stories; the uprooting of these kinds of approaches by data-driven science is an exciting shift
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Mar 27, 2024
Voice interfaces are inevitable. Speech is 4x faster than typing; frees up the eyes & hands; carries more info in its tune, rhythm, & timbre. So we built the first AI with EQ to understand the voice beyond words. It can better predict when to speak, what to say, & how to say it.
Hume AI
@hume_ai
Mar 27, 2024
Meet Hume’s Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), the first conversational AI with emotional intelligence.
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Mar 28, 2023
Replying to @ylecun
But the human brain was shaped by many, many trillions of “tokens” over the course of human evolution
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Jan 13, 2024
Replying to @jackclarkSF
This kinda devalues the word "alignment" and feeds into the idea that it's a euphemism for censorship
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Mar 5, 2024
Replying to @tegmark
LLMs said stuff like this years ago (remember Blake Lemoine?). Since then we’ve even been training them on articles about LLMs saying stuff like this
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Mar 27, 2024
Today, we announced the next big leap on our journey to optimize AI for human well-being. We’re launching a new flagship product, an empathic voice interface (EVI) that can be integrated into any application, that you can try right now. We also raised a $50M Series B
Rashi Shrivastava
@RashiShrivast18
Mar 27, 2024
Hume has raised $50 million in funding at a $219 million valuation to build “empathic” conversational AI that can detect over 24 emotions lacing a person's voice. forbes.com/sites/rashishr…
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Feb 16, 2024
Replying to @MoistCr1TiKaL
personalized entertainment doesn't interest you?
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
Mar 4, 2024
Replying to @NPCollapse
If someone asks a weird question the natural response is to say “is this a test?” That doesn’t require any emergent capability we didn’t already know about
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Alan Cowen
@AlanCowen
May 30, 2024
Replying to @ns123abc
Transformer and CNN are not mutually exclusive
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