Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2024-05-01
Alex Kantrowitz & Alan Cowen: books mentioned on Big Technology Podcast
Teaching AI To Read Our Emotions — With Alan Cowen
Alan Cowen is the CEO and founder Hume AI. Cowen joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how his company is building emotional intelligence into AI systems.
Alan Cowen discussed The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin and The Variations of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1 by Charles Darwin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin is a classic scientific text examining the evolutionary origins and universal nature of emotional displays across species.
Discussed“I won't go back that far, but basically like he was sketching out facial expressions in both man and animals. And he has a book called the expression of emotion in man and animals. And he recognizes the complexity of it and the nuance, but somehow, um,”
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The Variations of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1
The Variations of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1 by Charles Darwin is a foundational scientific work exploring how traits are altered through selective breeding and domestication.
Discussed“I won't go back that far, but basically like he was sketching out facial expressions in both man and animals. And he has a book called the expression of emotion in man and animals. And he recognizes the complexity of it and the nuance, but somehow, um,”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“This, the, the, not to go too far in the digression, but there is scientific literature that says danger and arousal are connected. I mean, Esther Pearl had a whole book on it called mating in captivity.”