{"id":186238,"date":"2024-03-28T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/is-ais-next-big-leap-understanding-emotion-50m-for-hume-says-yes"},"modified":"2024-03-28T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:27:22","slug":"is-ais-next-big-leap-understanding-emotion-50m-for-hume-says-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/is-ais-next-big-leap-understanding-emotion-50m-for-hume-says-yes","title":{"rendered":"Is AI\u2019s next big leap understanding emotion? $50M for Hume says yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pw0R_KViD1c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At a time when other AI assistants and chatbots are also beefing up their own voice interaction capabilities \u2014 as <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/openai-adds-read-aloud-voiceover-to-chatgpt-allowing-it-to-speak-its-outputs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OpenAI just did with ChatGPT<\/a> \u2014 Hume AI may have just set a new standard in mind-blowing human-like interactivity, intonation, and speaking qualities.<\/p>\n<p>One obvious potential customer, rival, or would-be acquirer that comes to mind in this case is Amazon, which remains many people\u2019s preferred voice assistant provider through Alexa, but which has since de-emphasized its voice offerings internally and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retaildive.com\/news\/amazon-layoffs-alexa-unit\/700211\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated it would reduce headcount on that division<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by VentureBeat: \u201cHave you had discussions with or been approached for partnerships\/acquisitions by larger entities such as Amazon, Microsoft, etc? I could imagine Amazon in particular being quite interested in this technology as it seems like a vastly improved voice assistant compared to Amazon\u2019s Alexa,\u201d Cowen responded via email: \u201cNo comment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when other AI assistants and chatbots are also beefing up their own voice interaction capabilities \u2014 as OpenAI just did with ChatGPT \u2014 Hume AI may have just set a new standard in mind-blowing human-like interactivity, intonation, and speaking qualities. One obvious potential customer, rival, or would-be acquirer that comes to mind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}