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Intelligent Machines (Video)Immortal Beloved, You've Arrived - AI's Emotional Intelligence Paradox
Can an AI truly care about your feelings—or is emotional intelligence in machines just the most sophisticated form of manipulation? Dr. Alan Cowen of Hume AI joins the crew to unpack the promise and peril of emotionally adept bots, even as they're quietly shaping how we connect, seek help, and parent in the digital age.
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OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno
Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots ar...
2025-10-303h 02Intelligent Machines (Audio)Immortal Beloved, You've Arrived - AI's Emotional Intelligence Paradox
Can an AI truly care about your feelings—or is emotional intelligence in machines just the most sophisticated form of manipulation? Dr. Alan Cowen of Hume AI joins the crew to unpack the promise and peril of emotionally adept bots, even as they're quietly shaping how we connect, seek help, and parent in the digital age.
Virtual Try On Free Online - AI Clothes Changer | i-TryOn
Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs
OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno
Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots ar...
2025-10-303h 02Total Leo (Video)Intelligent Machines 843: Immortal Beloved, You've Arrived
Can an AI truly care about your feelings—or is emotional intelligence in machines just the most sophisticated form of manipulation? Dr. Alan Cowen of Hume AI joins the crew to unpack the promise and peril of emotionally adept bots, even as they're quietly shaping how we connect, seek help, and parent in the digital age.
Virtual Try On Free Online - AI Clothes Changer | i-TryOn
Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs
OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno
Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots ar...
2025-10-303h 02Total Leo (Audio)Intelligent Machines 843: Immortal Beloved, You've Arrived
Can an AI truly care about your feelings—or is emotional intelligence in machines just the most sophisticated form of manipulation? Dr. Alan Cowen of Hume AI joins the crew to unpack the promise and peril of emotionally adept bots, even as they're quietly shaping how we connect, seek help, and parent in the digital age.
Virtual Try On Free Online - AI Clothes Changer | i-TryOn
Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs
OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno
Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots ar...
2025-10-303h 02
The Artificial HumanWhy am I sad when my AI goes away?According to the Harvard Business Review companionship has become the number one use case for generative Ai. But what if the model gets updated and the Ai chum you've been confiding in and sharing your life with disappears? Who picks up the pieces and do the creators of these technologies be more careful?Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong explore the latest and most high-profile incident of this when Open Ai replaced GPT 4o with GPT 5. At a stroke, all personas that users had shaped their use and careful prompting got wiped causing a wave of emotion from...
2025-10-0829 min
Future Media w/ Ricky Sutton and ChapellAdvocacy group calls on DOJ to coordinate remedies in Google antitrust trialsTim Cowen of Preiskel & Co joins Alan Chapell to discuss Google's antitrust woes, and the Movement for an Open Web's call for DOJ to more effectively harmonize the various remedies Google's antitrust trials given the interdependencies between the cases. They also compare and contrast the UK CMA's approach to reigning in Google Chrome with the DOJ's proposed use of a technical committee. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2025-06-2358 min
The Future of Voice AIEmotionally smart Voice AI | Alan Cowen (CEO & Chief Scientist at Hume AI)In the Future of Voice AI series of interviews, I ask three questions to my guests:
- What problems do you currently see in Enterprise Voice AI?
- How does your company solve these problems?
- What solutions do you envision in the next 5 years?This episode’s guest is Alan Cowen, CEO and Chief Scientist at Hume AI.Alan Cowen is founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Hume AI, a research lab and technology company that launched EVI, the first emotionally intelligent voice-language AI model and API. Before Hume, he started the Affective Computing te...
2025-04-1028 min
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4. Max Styler - Inferno (Original Mix)
5. Drake - Nokia (Jaden Bojsen Remix)
6. Kolter - Who You Talking To (Original Mix)
7. Mau P - The Less I Know The Better (Extended Mix)
8. JWave - I Think I Love Her (Original Mix)
9. Josh Samuel - Pump That (Extended Mix)
10. Blackchild (ITA) - Nothing Better Than Music (Extended Mix)
11. Tiesto & Rafael Cerato - Cool 'N Calm (Extended Mix)
12. James Hype - Don't Wake Me Up (Zack Cowen Remix)
13. KREAM & Camden...
2025-04-0559 min
The Tonight ShowTuesday 1 April: Tariff Turmoil & Ceann Comhairle Confidence VoteOn The Tonight Show:Ireland braces for economic shock as the Trump administration prepares to impose sweeping tariffs.Plus, we discuss the historic confidence motion in the Ceann Comhairle and whether the matter will finally be put to bed.Joining Kieran Cuddihy to discuss is: Barry Cowen MEP, Fianna FáilNiall Stanage - White House Columnist, The HillAlan Dillon TD, Minister of State, Department of EnterpriseGeorge Lawlor TD, Labour PartyProf Jim Stewart, Adjunct Professor in Finance, Trinity Business SchoolLouise Burne, Political Correspondent, Irish Mirror
2025-04-0246 min
La chenille qui osa parlerL’amour à tout prix ?Ah l’Amour… Nous aborderons la notion de l’Amour selon 3 philosophes ainsi que l’Amour romantique en 3 catégories.Cet épisode met également en lumière la dépendance affective dans les relations amoureuses.Vous retrouverez ci après le lien vers l’article relatant les 27 émotions selon Alan Cowen et Dacher Keltner : https://www.lapsychologiepositive.fr/liste-des-emotions/(La partie est tout en bas de page de l’article)Heureuse de vous...
2025-02-0325 min
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek JoshiVoice-to-Voice Foundation ModelsAlan Cowen is the cofounder and CEO of Hume, a company building voice-to-voice foundation models. They recently raised their $50M Series B from Union Square Ventures, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and others. Alan's favorite book: 1984 (Author: George Orwell)(00:01) Introduction(00:06) Defining Voice-to-Voice Foundation Models(01:26) Historical Context: Handling Voice and Speech Understanding(03:54) Emotion Detection in Voice AI Models(04:33) Training Models to Recognize Human Emotion in Speech(07:19) Cultural Variations in Emotional Expressions(09:00) Semantic Space Theory in Emotion Recognition(12:11) Limitations of Basic Emotion Categories(15:50) Recognizing Blended Emotional...
2024-10-3039 min
The Connected PodcastHurricane Milton could cost insurers US$50 billion The Connected Podcast: News and Events in the Insurance Ecosystem The Connected Podcast: News and Events in the Insurance Ecosystem In the latest episode of The Connected Podcast, the hosts dive deep into the significant challenges faced by the insurance industry due to recent hurricanes, with a particular focus on Hurricanes Milton and Helene. Hurricane Milton, which hit Florida as a Category 3 storm, is projected to cause insured losses ranging from $30 to $50 billion, marking it as the most costly hurricane since Hurricane Ian in 2022. The impact on insurers, especially those with high exposure in Florida, is profound...
2024-10-1712 min
The Monopoly ReportEpisode 2: Tim Cowen on the proposed search antitrust remediesTim Cowen, the Chair of the Antitrust Practice at Preiskel & Co LLP comes on the show to talk with Alan and Ari about the DOJ's remedies framework and how it might play out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-10-1534 min
The DisagreementBonus: Can AI Become Conscious?In this bonus conversation, we feature a short (and new) excerpt from the full disagreement between last week's guests, Roman Yampolskiy and Alan Cowen. Here we apply the question of whether an AI can become conscious to Alan’s company, Hume AI, and their chatbot EVI. For a different disagreement between Roman and Alan, check out the feature episode.
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2024-09-2110 minThe Disagreement17: AI and Existential RiskToday’s disagreement is on Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk. In this episode, we ask the most consequential question we’ve asked so far on this show: Do rapidly advancing AI systems pose an existential threat to humanity?To have this conversation, we’ve brought together two experts: a world class computer scientist and a Silicon Valley AI entrepreneur.Roman Yampolskiy is an associate professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Louisville. His most recent book is: AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable.Alan Cowen is the Chief Executive Officer of Hume A...
2024-09-1250 min
Double TapBest Of YouTube: Cooking With Kayaker, Michael’s New Setup & AI With EmpathyIn this episode of Double Tap on YouTube, Steven and Shaun discuss the challenges of indoor and outdoor cooking, how AI could soon better understand our emotions, and how our friend Michael is getting on in his new setup.We start with our good friend Kayaker who joins the show to talk about how he enjoys good cookout during the summer months. He shares his experience with Weber grills, how he uses talking thermometers for food prep and Shaun shares how he uses an airfryer to cook at home safely.Next up another good friend...
2024-08-1755 min
Access Tech LiveWWDC Expectations, Accessible Travel, and Giving AI Emotions with Hume AISteven Scott and Marc Aflalo gear up for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, sharing their hopes for meaningful updates to Siri, Apple Watch, and accessibility across iOS. They also tackle ongoing issues in accessible travel, citing both progress and frustrating setbacks when it comes to airline policies and mobility devices.
Special guest Alan Cowen from Hume AI joins to discuss the company’s mission to give AI emotional intelligence, exploring the potential benefits for accessibility and the ethical risks of human-like machines. Alongside major headlines—including WestJet’s accessibility plan, Dexcom’s Apple Watch integration, Uber Caregiver, and Canada’s Enabling Acc...
2024-06-0652 min
Big Technology PodcastTeaching AI To Read Our Emotions — With Alan CowenAlan 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. In this conversation, we examine why AI needs to learn how to read emotion, not just the literal text, and examine at how Hume does that with voice and facial expressions. In the first half, we discuss the theory of reading emotions and expressions and in the second half we discuss how it's applied. Tune in for a wide ranging conversation that touches on the study of emotion, using AI to speak with — and...
2024-05-0156 min
AI & IHe Built an AI Model That Can Decode Your Emotions - Ep. 19 with Alan CowenThe future of AI technology isn’t just faster or more powerful—it’s empathetic. My guest for this episode, Alan Cowen, is leading the charge with the first-ever emotionally intelligent AI.Alan is the co-founder and CEO of Hume, an AI research laboratory developing models trained to identify and measure expressions of emotion from voice inflections and facial expressions. The best part? Once it understands these emotions, the AI is designed to interact with users in a way that optimizes for human well-being and leaves them with a positive emotional experience. ...
2024-04-2456 min
AI and IHe Built an AI Model That Can Decode Your Emotions - Ep. 19 with Alan CowenThis AI can read emotions better than you can.
It was created by Alan Cowen, the cofounder and CEO of Hume, an AI research lab developing models that can read your face and your voice with uncanny accuracy. Before starting Hume, Alan helped set up Google’s research into affective computing and has a Ph.D. in computational psychology from Berkely.
Hume’s ultimate goal is to build AI models that can optimize for human well-being, and in this episode I sat down with Alan to understand how that might be possible.
We get i...
2024-04-2456 min
UndertoneSebastian MallabySebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Mallaby contributes to a variety of publications, including Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, where he spent two years as a contributing editor. He’s the author of many of my favorite business books of all time including The Power Law on the history of Venture Capital, More Money Than God on the history of Hedge Funds, and The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, which is one of my favorite biographies...
2024-04-181h 15
Generative Now | AI Builders on Creating the FutureAlan Cowen: Creating Empathic AI with HumeWhat if AI could understand what we, humans, are feeling? This week on Generative Now, Lightspeed Partner and host Michael Mignano talks to Alan Cowen, CEO & Chief Scientist of Hume AI. Hume creates empathic AI that learns our preferences from our vocal and facial expressions. Their goal is to maximize our happiness and quality of life. Hume is now announcing their API for EVI, Hume’s Empathic Voice Interface.
The conversation covers Cowen's journey from being a researcher to founding Hume AI, the importance of emotional intelligence in AI for quality human interaction, and the potential to tran...
2024-04-1841 min
Emergent BehaviorEmotion is All You Need: Hume AI on the First Emotionally Intelligent AIAlan Cowen, founder of Hume AI, an empathic AI research lab, joins @Ate-A-Pi to chat about the AI models developed by Hume that understand more than just language. These models can detect emotions in voices and faces and generate responses based on the detected emotions.—Recommended Podcast: Company BreakdownsEach episode of Company Breakdowns dives into S-1s and series B-and-beyond companies, interviewing founders and investors to break down the companies. First episode is on Rubrik - which just IPO'd. Coming up this season: Databricks, Reddit + more,SpotifyApple...
2024-04-081h 24
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2024-03-2955 min
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player AnalysisHume CEO Alan Cowen on Creating Emotionally Aware AIIn this episode, Nathan sits down with Alan Cowen, CEO and Chief Scientist at Hume AI, an emotional intelligence startup working on creating emotionally aware AI. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period.We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.SPONSORS:
2023-12-091h 18
Therapist Uncensored PodcastAwe: A Powerful Tool for Collective Healing with Dr. Dacher Keltner (Series SRIW, Ep 6, 207)The neuroscience of awe as an antidote to our stress response system
In this series, Secure Relating in an Insecure World, we've covered tough topics head-on. It is, therefore, fitting that we close the series with something scientifically hopeful to help us stay in our secure selves so we can stay engaged and active as social advocates and not collapse in overwhelm.
The science of this specific feeling of awe has garnered much attention for good reason. Our guest today has spent decades exploring the sensation and documenting how to develop it in everyday life. We have all experienced these s...
2023-06-2045 min
The AI Front LinesAlan Cowen, CEO and Founder of Hume AI: Over $17 Million Raised to Measure and Improve How Technology Affects Human EmotionIn today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Alan Cowen, CEO and Founder of Hume AI, a research lab and technology startup that's raised Over $17 Million in funding, about how unchecked machine learning can lead very quickly to exploitation, and why we need to develop technology more in line with people’s mental health. With algorithms targeted specifically for more positive behavioral outcomes, positive emotions and desirable life outcomes, Hume AI is charting a new course in the development of human-AI interaction.
We speak with CEO and Founder Alan Cowen about his background education in psychology and...
2023-05-2632 min
BUILDERSAlan Cowen, CEO and Founder of Hume AI: Over $17 Million Raised to Measure and Improve How Technology Affects Human EmotionIn today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Alan Cowen, CEO and Founder of Hume AI, a research lab and technology startup that's raised Over $17 Million in funding, about how unchecked machine learning can lead very quickly to exploitation, and why we need to develop technology more in line with people’s mental health. With algorithms targeted specifically for more positive behavioral outcomes, positive emotions and desirable life outcomes, Hume AI is charting a new course in the development of human-AI interaction.
We speak with CEO and Founder Alan Cowen about his background education in psychology an...
2023-05-2632 minBUILDERSAlan Cowen, CEO and Founder of Hume AI: Over $17 Million Raised to Measure and Improve How Technology Affects Human EmotionIn today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Alan Cowen, CEO and Founder of Hume AI, a research lab and technology startup that's raised Over $17 Million in funding, about how unchecked machine learning can lead very quickly to exploitation, and why we need to develop technology more in line with people’s mental health. With algorithms targeted specifically for more positive behavioral outcomes, positive emotions and desirable life outcomes, Hume AI is charting a new course in the development of human-AI interaction.
We speak with CEO and Founder Alan Cowen about his background education in psychology an...
2023-05-2632 min
The Feelings Lab31. The Feelings Lab - Emotions and the brain w/ Dr. Yukiyasu KamitaniJoin Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, Dr. Yukiyasu Kamitani, Professor at the University of Kyoto and Head of the Department of Neuroinformatics at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, and host Matt Forte as they discuss the nature of emotions in the human brain. Learn how scientists are decoding the emotions evoked by thousands of videos from brain activity, and how scientists are scanning the brains of sleeping subjects and decoding the visual content of their dreams.
Grab a friend and set out on a journey with the new season of The Feelings Lab, a podcast series from Hume AI. We're...
2023-04-111h 02
Technology Revolution: The Future of NowThe Future of Empathy vs AI: TCB or How Does It Feel?We queried ChatGPT: Is empathy important in business success? ChatGPT Response: Yes, empathy can be an important factor in business success. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others, and it can be beneficial in many ways in the business world. …Empathy can help build strong relationships with clients and customers. …help foster a positive work environment. …help in problem-solving and decision-making. We asked ChatGPT: Do you have "empathy"? ChatGPT Response: As an AI language model, I do not have emotions or personal experiences, so I cannot feel empathy in the same way that a human being...
2023-04-0551 min
Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter DialogueBuilding an AI for our Well-Being with Hume AI CEO, Alan CowenMinter Dialogue with Dr Alan CowenDr Alan Cowen is the CEO and Chief Scientist at Hume AI, a science-backed expression API platform for researchers and developers, whose mission is to align science and technology with human well-being. In this conversation, we discuss his background, including 5 years working at Google, doing scientific research on AI, the Hume AI project and business model, the state of play in understanding our emotions and creating artificial empathy. A perfect topic for any interested in how AI will play an important part in tending to our well being.If...
2023-03-051h 00
Life Goals with Theo DelaneyLife Goals with Theo Delaney - Robyn CowenTop commentator Robyn Cowen joins Theo Delaney to relive the goals of her life and talk about her journey from BBC Radio Oxford to national television and lead commentator status for the Women’s Euros in 2022. Now well established, she reveals what it takes to be among the best in the business and assesses the roles of the co-commentator and studio pundits too. Among The Oxford United fan’s scorers are her childhood idol Alan Shearer, Alfie Potter and Chloe Kelly. https://www.theodelaney.com https://www.11-29media.com/life-goals@LifeGoalsTD @theodelaney
2023-02-271h 22The Feelings Lab30. The Feelings Lab - Making Tech Compatible with Wisdom w/ Soren GordhamerJoin Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, Wisdom 2.0 founder and Wisdom Ventures co-founder Soren Gordhamer, and host Matt Forte as they discuss one of the greatest modern challenges: how to promote wisdom and mindfulness in a world swarming with technology that demands our attention.
Grab a friend and set out on a journey with the new season of The Feelings Lab, a podcast series from Hume AI. We're exploring the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We'll discover how scientists and technologists are seeking to bring empathy to social media, robots, digital art...
2023-02-201h 06The Feelings Lab29. The Feelings Lab - The Future of AI That Talks w/ Dr. Jonathan GratchJoin Alan Cowen, CEO of Hume AI, Dr. Jonathan Gratch, Director for Virtual Human Research at USC Institute for Creative Technologies, and host Matt Forte as they discuss "The Future of AI That Talks.” When AI agents are powerful enough to carry out our goals, how will we communicate our goals to them? Talking is an essential function for beneficial AI. We discuss the importance of embodiment, gestures, and expressions for AI that talks. We also discuss the social and emotional benefits of well-designed virtual humans, including their use in training and therapy.
Grab a friend and set out on a...
2022-11-291h 04The Feelings Lab28. The Feelings Lab - Are Expressions Innate? w/ Dr Disa SauterAre expressions innate? Join Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, University of Amsterdam professor Dr. Disa Sauter, and host Matt Forte as they discuss the origins of our emotional expressions.
Grab a friend and set out on a journey with the new season of The Feelings Lab, a podcast series from Hume AI. We're exploring the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We'll discover how scientists and technologists are seeking to bring empathy to social media, robots, digital art, and more, building equity and compassion into these ubiquitous AI systems. Join our expert...
2022-11-151h 00The Feelings Lab27. The Feelings Lab - The Future of Mental Health Assessment w/ Dr. Emilia MolimpakisJoin Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, thymia CEO Dr. Emilia Molimpakis, and host Matt Forte as they discuss “The Future of Mental Health Assessment." Today, a clinical diagnosis is largely the result of a conversation, nonverbal signals, and a doctor's intuition. Can technology help us improve, but not replace, this crucial element of subjectivity? We discuss how machine learning tools to understand vocal and nonverbal communication can revolutionize mental health assessment, helping us more reliably measure symptoms of pain, major depression, cognitive impairment, and other disorders, and paving the way for more targeted and holistic treatments.
Grab a friend an...
2022-10-111h 02The Feelings Lab26. The Feelings Lab - The Emotion Revolution in Psychology w/ Dr. Daniel DukesJoin Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, psychologist Dr. Daniel Dukes, and host Matt Forte as they discuss “The Emotion Revolution," and how the shifting emphasis of the past century of psychological inquiry—on behavior, cognition, and now, emotion—has been marked by advances in our understanding of how human learn.
Grab a friend and set out on a journey with the new season of The Feelings Lab, a podcast series from Hume AI. We're exploring the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. We'll discover how scientists and technologists are seeking to bring empath...
2022-09-271h 02The Feelings Lab25. The Feelings Lab - Myths About Emotion Science w/ Dacher KeltnerJoin Dr. Alan Cowen, founder of Hume AI, Dr. Dacher Keltner, founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and host Matt Forte as they discuss Myths About Emotion Science. Does the face ‘reveal our emotions’? What does science really say about how people express their feelings? We discuss the real complexity and nuance of facial and vocal expressions, and revisit what Darwin meant when he said that expressions are “purposeless.”
The Feelings Lab, presented by Hume AI, explores the frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more emp...
2022-08-2253 minThe Feelings Lab24. The Feelings Lab - Trust & Safety in Online Conversations w/ Jenny WolframJoin Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, Brand Bastion CEO Jenny Wolfram, and host Matt Forte as they discuss Trust and Safety in Online Conversations. How can we give people the trust in one another, and the safety from threats and harassment, to speak freely online? How can we ensure that people's messages are being heard by organizations that can make a difference? Amid the rise in online communities, we consider the essential role that AI will play in empowering authentic voices, from classifying harmful content to delivering care to the vulnerable. Conversational AI has the promise of enabling organizations...
2022-07-1851 minThe Feelings Lab23. The Feelings Lab - Compassion & Customer Service w/ Josh FeastJoin Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, Cogito CEO Josh Feast and host Matt Forte as they discuss the potential for AI tools to bring more empathy to customer service. Customer service conversations can affect our quality of life, so whether we feel heard rightly determines our perception of brands.
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 th...
2022-06-1254 minThe Feelings Lab22. The Feelings Lab - Well-being w/ Dacher KeltnerCan AI teach itself to improve our well-being? Join Dr. Alan Cowen, CEO of Hume AI, Dr. Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and founding director of the Greater Good Science Center, and podcast host Matt Forte as they discuss how the future of technology hinges on the measurement of human well-being.
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 go...
2022-06-0658 minThe Feelings Lab21. The Feelings Lab - Listener Questions + Emotion Science NewsJoin 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.
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2022-05-3057 min
NVIDIA AI PodcastHume AI’s Alan Cowen on Building AIs With a Devotion to Emotion - Ep. 170Can machines experience emotions? They might, according to Hume AI, an AI research lab and technology company that aims to “ensure artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.”
So how can AI genuinely understand how we are feeling, and respond appropriately?
On this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz spoke with Alan Cowen, founder of Hume AI and The Hume Initiative. Cowen — a former researcher at Google who holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Berkeley — talks about the latest work at the intersection of computing and human emotion.
2022-05-2647 min
The Pulse of AIHume AI is teaching AI to understand and empathize with human emotionsOn this podcast Jason Stoughton is joined by Alan Cowen, CEO and Chief Scientist, at Hume AI. As AI progresses, both in terms of what it can do and how widely it is deployed, the ability for AI to understand and empathize with our emotions is still a glaring hole in AI's capabilities. On this podcast Jason and Alan talk about the state of the technology, unpack the hopes and dreams and fears of an AI that understands, and can potentially manipulate, our emotions and how Hume is not only leading the way in advancing AI's capabilities in this...
2022-05-1046 minThe Feelings Lab20. The Feelings Lab - Pain & Personalized Medicine w/ Dr. Daniel BarronJoin 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...
2022-05-0950 minThe Feelings Lab19. The Feelings Lab -Empathy & User Research W/ Michael WinnickJoin 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 mo...
2022-04-2556 minThe Feelings LabBONUS. The Feelings Lab - Special Conversation ICML ExVo Workshop & Competition PanelJoin 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 to...
2022-04-1542 min
The Local Maximum with Max SklarEp. 221 - Emotion and AI with Alan CowenToday’s guest is Dr. Alan Cowen, CEO of hume.ai, to discuss fascinating new research on human emotional states, and how machine learning and AI techniques can be used to distinguish between them. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
2022-04-1242 min
Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots417: Hume AI with Alan CowenDr. Alan Cowen is the Executive Director of The Hume Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to the responsible advancement of AI with empathy, and CEO of Hume AI, an AI research lab and empathetic AI company that is hoping to pave the way for AI that improves our emotional well-being.
Chad talks with Alan about forming clear ethical guidelines around how this technology should be used because there is a problem in that the public is skeptical about whether technology is used for good or bad. The Hume Initiative is intended to lay out what concrete use cases...
2022-04-0740 min
Meta-Averseep 5: Emotion Science, AI, and Digital Assistants ft Dr Alan CowenDr Alan Cowen is an applied mathematician and computational emotion scientist. Bet you didn’t even know “computational emotion scientist” was a thing! Dr Cowen’s work at Hume AI and The Hume Initiative centers around building artificial intelligence to serve human goals and emotional well-being, and charting an ethical path for empathic AI. What does that mean? For starters, it could mean digital assistants like Alexa and Siri the ability to recognize our emotions, and respond appropriately. But down the line, when those assistants are less like disembodied voices and more like high-res 3D characters in the metavers...
2022-03-3158 minThe Feelings Lab18. The Feelings Lab - Aesthetic Appreciation & Fine Art w/ Kathy TafelJoin 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...
2022-03-2851 minThe Feelings Lab17. The Feelings Lab - Empathy & Augmented Reality w/ Arjun NagendranJoin 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...
2022-03-221h 02The Feelings Lab16. The Feelings Lab - Empathy & Digital Health w/ Dr. Dennis WallIn 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...
2022-03-0853 minThe Feelings Lab15. The Feelings Lab - Awe & Digital Art w/ Richard KerrisIn 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 a...
2022-03-0143 minThe Feelings Lab11. The Feelings Lab - Compassion & Robots w/ Dr Paolo PirjanianIn 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...
2022-02-2744 minThe Feelings Lab14. The Feelings Lab - Love & The Future of Dating w/ Kellie AmmermanJoin 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...
2022-02-2146 minThe Feelings Lab13. The Feelings Lab - Well Being in a Remote World w/ John GerzemaIn a world of remote living, how can we ensure people are cared for? Join Hume CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, Harris Poll CEO John Gerzema, renowned psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner, and host Matt Forte as they discuss how we can track well-being in a remote world. Defining "well-being" turns out to be more important than ever—not just for humans, but for the automated systems that increasingly orchestrate our digital lives.
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...
2022-02-1451 minThe Feelings Lab12. The Feelings Lab - Fulfillment in the Metaverse w/ Greg CrossWill people find fulfillment in the metaverse? Join Hume AI CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, Soul Machines co-founder Greg Cross, and host Matt Forte as they discuss the promises and pitfalls of the metaverse. What exactly is it? Can it be a place where we can create and sustain emotional connections? And what do we stand to gain if we can get it right?
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, di...
2022-02-0758 min
CewebCastComputação AfetivaEm mais um episódio da série do Inteligência Artificial do Cewebcast, Diogo Cortiz (Ceweb.br|NIC.br) explica o que é a Computação Afetiva, uma área da computação que busca criar tecnologias que reconheçam e interpretem as emoções das pessoas enquanto elas interagem com a tecnologia. Ele também explica qual é a relação desta área com a Web.
Links/informação citados:
Filme Divertidamente (Disney)
Livro: How emotions are made - Lisa Feldman Barrett
Livro: Affective Computing - Rosalind Picard
Alan S. Cowen - Mapping Emotion - https://www.alancowen.com/bio
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2021-12-1424 min
The Feelings Lab09. The Feelings Lab - Love w/ Melina KanakaredesEmotion science has a lot to say about love. In this episode, we discuss chocolate, prairie voles, oxytocin, and the Greek phrase “fasolaki mou” (“my little green bean”). Join our recurring hosts Dr. Alan Cowen, Dr. Dacher Keltner, Danielle Krettek-Cobb, and Matt Forte as they welcome special guest, actor Melina Kanakaredes (“CSI: NY” and “The Resident.“)
The Feelings Lab is a new podcast series from Hume AI. Grab a friend and set out on a journey with our expert hosts and celebrity guests as we explore the new frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future.
Subscri...
2021-11-231h 03The Feelings Lab08. The Feelings Lab - DoubtIn this week's episode of The Feelings Lab, we discuss the emotion of doubt with our hosts Dr. Alan Cowen, Dr. Dacher Keltner, Danielle Krettek-Cobb, and Matt Forte.
Is doubt an emotion? Indeed, it is. And it can take on many different shapes: self-doubt, intellectual questioning, simple curiosity, imposter's syndrome, and more. At its most beneficial, doubt can help preserve and protect, it can inform and fuel personal growth, and it can even enlighten civilizations... but it can also cripple and destroy. Join us as we dig into this vital emotion.
The Feelings Lab is a new podcast series from...
2021-11-1649 minThe Feelings Lab07. The Feelings Lab - Mirth w/ John HodgmanIn this week's episode of The Feelings Lab, we discuss the emotion of mirth. Join our recurring hosts Dr. Alan Cowen, Danielle Krettek-Cobb, and Matt Forte with humorist, best-selling author, and The Daily Show alum actor John Hodgman, the host of the Judge John Hodgman podcast.
Shakespeare once said, “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." With our episode on mirth, we celebrate aging gracefully with laughter and amusement. Did mirth peak in the 1800s? What are the different flavors of mirth? Does Jon Stewart really compliment a joke as "very funny" with a totally straight and unamused face? Tu...
2021-11-081h 01The Feelings Lab06. The Feelings Lab - Anxiety w/ George BonannoIn this week’s episode of The Feelings Lab, we discuss the emotion of anxiety. Join our recurring hosts Dr. Alan Cowen, Danielle Krettek-Cobb, and Matt Forte as they welcome special guest Professor George Bonanno who leads the Loss, Trauma, and Emotion Lab at Columbia University.
Anxiety stems from a sense of foreboding. Whether felt chronically or in reaction to an immediate threat, anxiety is the bodily state of preparedness for something that could go wrong. Some anxiety is necessary, but these days there’s just too much of it. We discuss what science tells us about how to combat anxi...
2021-11-011h 02The Feelings Lab05. The Feelings Lab - Horror w/ Fred ArmisenIn this week’s episode of The Feelings Lab, we discuss the emotion of horror with Fred Armisen, guest Emmy-award nominated actor, writer, producer and musician, who joins our recurring hosts Dr. Alan Cowen, Dr. Dacher Keltner, Danielle Krettek-Cobb and Matt Forte.
“The call is coming from inside the house!” Wherein we discuss the unifying nature of the experience of horror in social groups, the aesthetic and cultural representation of the emotion throughout history, and how watching alien invasion films and “The Blair Witch Project” can make you more resilient.
The Feelings Lab is a new podcast series from Hume AI. Grab a...
2021-10-2653 minThe Feelings Lab04. The Feelings Lab - Pride w/ Cassidy LichtmanIn this week’s episode of The Feelings Lab, we discuss the emotion of pride. Join returning hosts Dr. Alan Cowen, Dr. Dacher Keltner, Danielle Krettek-Cobb and Matt Forte with our guest Cassidy Lichtman, a professional volleyball player for Athletes Unlimited, a Chairperson of the Volleyball Player Executive Committee, and former member of the USA Volleyball Women’s National Team.
Learn the difference between authentic and hubristic pride, how prideful energy motivates, and how the pressure to sustain glory and triumph can destroy reputations. And yes, gorillas do beat their chest in celebratory pride.
The Feelings Lab is a new podc...
2021-10-1854 minThe Feelings Lab03. The Feelings Lab - Desire w/ Monét X ChangeIn this week’s episode of The Feelings Lab, we discuss the emotion of desire. Join our returning hosts Dr. Alan Cowen, Danielle Krettek-Cobb, Dr. Dacher Keltner and Matt Forte with special guest Monét XChange, the entertainment spitfire and first double crown winner from “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” having earned the title Miss Congeniality on Season 10 and become the first queen of color inducted into the Hall of Fame after winning All-Stars 4.
From Georgia O’Keeffe’s sensual flower paintings, to Apple’s iMac “yum” ads and the infamous Carl’s Jr. Paris Hilton burger campaign, we discuss the vast spectrum of desi...
2021-10-1251 minThe Feelings Lab02. The Feelings Lab - Embarrassment w/ Ali KolbertThis week on The Feelings Lab, we're discussing embarrassment!
Returning hosts Dr. Alan Cowen, Dr. Dacher Keltner, and Matt Forte will
be joined by guest host Dr. Jessica Tracy (Director of the Emotion and Self Lab at the University of British Columbia) and special guest, comedian Ali Kolbert (as seen on The Tonight Show).
In this episode, we learn about the surprisingly vital role of embarrassment in our social lives. It’s a signal of appeasement that defuses tension, makes us more likable, and helps build our relationships. AND, our dogs may not really feel shame when they break out th...
2021-10-0544 minThe Feelings Lab01. The Feelings Lab – Awe w/ Tami SimonIn this week’s episode of The Feelings Lab, we discuss the emotion of awe. Join our hosts Dr. Alan Cowen, Dr. Dacher Keltner, Danielle Krettek-Cobb, and Matt Forte with guest Tami Simon, founder and publisher of Sounds True, the world’s largest living library of transformational teachings that support and accelerate spiritual awakening and personal transformation.
Discover what brings about the emotion of awe. How can we more frequently enter the “foothills of awe” and experience it more often in our daily lives? Is awe always a positive feeling? How is awe a source of spirituality? Can animals experience awe? And...
2021-09-2543 minThe Feelings Lab00. Welcome To The Feelings LabWelcome to The Feelings Lab, a new podcast series from Hume AI. Grab a friend and set out on a journey with our expert hosts and celebrity guests as we explore the new frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future.
In this introductory episode, you’ll meet our hosts, learn about the origins of emotion science, discover how advances in big data and statistics are enabling scientists to map our emotions and lend profound new insight into our inner lives, AND find out that mice are actually ticklish!
Our Hosts:
Dr. Alan Cowen is an...
2021-09-2556 minThe Feelings LabThe Feelings Lab Official TrailerThis September, Hume AI is launching "The Feelings Lab," a weekly podcast series exploring the new frontier of emotion science and its lessons for creating a more empathic future. From Darwin's forgotten insights on emotion to Pixar’s foray into feelings in "Inside Out," join our expert hosts and emotionally-attuned guests each week as we chart out human emotions, their roots in evolution, and their role in shaping the modern world. We'll imagine what it means to consider and care for the full spectrum of human feelings: in living our lives, shaping the future and honoring the emotional connections inside an...
2021-09-0802 min
Chá das Cinco com Literatura Podcast#52 – A liga extraordinária de Alan MooreOlá pessoal, finalmente fizemos nosso primeiro episódio sobre quadrinhos, em que conversamos sobre “A liga extraordinária” (1999 -) de Alan Moore e Kevin O’Neill. Falamos sobre o mercado editorial no Brasil, traduções e quadrinhos africanos; sobre personagens literários, magia e noções de tempo e espaço; falamos sobre as adaptações dos quadrinhos de super-heróis e o esvaziamento dos posicionamentos políticos do autor. Abordamos também a adaptação de 2003.
Livros citados:
V de Vingança (1982), de Alan Moore
Batman – Piada mortal (1988), de Alan Moore
Lost Girls (1991), de Alan Moore
Watchmen (1986-1987...
2021-03-301h 23Chá das Cinco Com Literatura#52 – A liga extraordinária de Alan MooreOlá pessoal, finalmente fizemos nosso primeiro episódio sobre quadrinhos, em que conversamos sobre “A liga extraordinária” (1999 -) de Alan Moore e Kevin O’Neill. Falamos sobre o mercado editorial no Brasil, traduções e quadrinhos africanos; sobre personagens literários, magia e noções de tempo e espaço; falamos sobre as adaptações dos quadrinhos de super-heróis e o esvaziamento dos posicionamentos políticos do autor. Abordamos também a adaptação de 2003.
Livros citados:
V de Vingança (1982), de Alan Moore
Batman – Piada mortal (1988), de Alan Moore
Lost Girls (1991), de Alan Moore
Watchmen (1986-1987...
2021-03-301h 23
China in the AmericasWe're All In The Caribbean with Tyler CowenI'm now an Emergent Ventures Fellow! I've received a generous grant from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The grant will be used to develop this podcast and create more China-Caribbean relations content (newsletter coming soon)! This is all thanks to this episode's guest - Tyler Cowen. He is the Director of the Mercatus Center and an Economics Professor at George Mason University. Tyler is also the coauthor (along with Alex Tabarrok of the Marginal Revolution blog) and host of the Conversations with Tyler Podcast. Show NotesSir. Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize winning...
2021-02-251h 15
Rail Technology Magazine PodcastEp 24. Cyber security on our rail network, Paul Appleton & George BearfieldOn this week’s episode of RTM’s Track Talk, host Ailsa Cowen is joined by two guests. Paul Appleton, Deputy Director of Railway Safety and HM Deputy Chief Inspector of Railways at ORR and George Bearfield, Health and Safety Director at Rock Rail. They discuss the increasing awareness of cyber safety in the rail world and why our cyber security is vital.Paul spoke of how all our new modern trains are all heavily software-based. He explained how we’ve moved away from the electromechanical based systems meaning we need to make sure that we’re all read...
2021-01-0531 min
Small Time LeadersOne Question From One Little Old Lady with Michael A. TateWe also wanted to thank our guest speakers for this month, Allan Tsang and Dominic Lawson. Allan shared with us Transferring Hostage Negotiation Skills in the Business World, and the importance of Developing a Persona Mission and Purpose. Dominic taught us how to Keep Calm Through Life Storms and how to Create a Coaching Tree. In today’s episode of Small-Time Leaders, the host, Michael Tate share how Mrs. Cowen challenged him to rebuild her son’s career path. After multiple meetings, Michael and the Cowen family designed a succession plan that helped their son find his way a...
2020-08-2608 min
Reversing Climate ChangeThe promise & peril of blockchain governance—w/ Dr. Nick Cowen, University of LincolnThe American Constitution provides the ‘nuts and bolts of liberty,’ putting constraints on the government and promising equality before the law. But the challenge is that it relies on state officials to enforce the law impartially. What if the blockchain could help us avoid these human-level implementation problems and effectively automate some features of our bureaucracy?
Dr. Nick Cowen is a lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln and the author of the paper, ‘Markets for Rules: The Promise and Peril of Blockchain Distributed Governance.’ Today, Nick is back to discuss...
2020-07-1654 minThe Benzo Free PodcastAnger and Irritability in Benzo WithdrawalAnger, frustration, and even rage can be common during benzo withdrawal. When events trigger us, we react. But what happens when we are unable to calm down? Learn seven tips to help you step away from anger during benzo withdrawal.In today’s episode, D explores anger and rage during benzo withdrawal. He also shares a benzo story from Georgia, talks about supplements and reinstatement, and reminds us of an upcoming annual event this July.https://www.easinganxiety.com/post/anger-and-irritability-in-benzo-withdrawal-bfp067Video ID: BFP067Chapters ...
2020-06-1452 min
Davidson Hang Reflections and Lessons from a life worth livingEpisode 38: Davidson Hang Reflections on my fear of looking bad but still taking action despite what others may think.According to a study published in Alan S. Cowen and Dacher Keltner Phd from Berkeley there are 27 human emotions. I will discuss 26 of them in processing my emotions to see if others feel the same way.
Admiration-I have admiration for others taking action and when white allies are acknowledging their white privilege it makes me happy that we are moving in some sort of progress because I do think that acceptance is the start before any change happens. I tell people all of the time, if I see my friends getting bullied. I'll say something and acknowledging that b...
2020-06-0512 min
Cashflow Ninja440: Alan Donenfeld: 5 Trends That Will Impact Real Estate InvestmentsMy guest in this episode is Alan Donenfeld. Alan is the founder of CityVest.com and oversees all investment, technology and administration of the company. Alan has 35 years of experience as a financial services entrepreneur having founded several investment and financing companies as well as investing in and advising on multi-hundred million dollar deals at several large investment banking firms. Most recently Alan was the founder and General Partner of Paragon Capital, a private investment fund focused on making structured debt and equity investments. For the last 20 years, Alan has been President and the founder of Bristol Investment Group...
2019-03-2938 min
What'd You Miss This WeekPost-Gaming the Fed Decision with Alan GreenspanThis week, we post-gamed the Federal Reserve decision with former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, who offered his thoughts on monetary policy, the economy as well as his concerns about the current political environment. Matthew Patsky, the CEO of Trillium Asset Management and a Facebook shareholder, joined to discuss how the social media company could improve their corporate governance amid more privacy concerns. Vivien Azer, a senior analyst at Cowen, discussed Tilray's new partnership with Novartis and her outlook for the cannabis industry. Then Paula Glover, the CEO of the American Association of Blacks in Energy, came on to talk...
2018-12-2133 min
Between the LaughsFleabagEpisode 6 of the fortnightly podcast in which four comedy fans watch a sitcom and then chat about it. It's Sarah's turn to nominate, and she chose dark, theatrical comedy-drama Fleabag. Find out what we thought about it, as well as our nuanced thoughts about Mrs Brown's Boys. Also, who will win game 6 of the Sitcom World Cup: I'm Alan Partridge vs The Day Today.
By Rob Cowen, Sarah Moore, Paul Brunger and Mike Teckman
Music:
"DarxieLand" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2018-07-2137 min
Pro Video PodcastPro Video Podcast 20: Node Fest 2017. Motion Design and Animation.
Node Fest 2017 has an epic list of speakers. The best Motion Design festival in the southern hemisphere. This week James Cowen and Rich Nosworthy join host Blair Walker to discuss this incredible pool of talent presenting. They also explain what makes Node so special. It will be worth the trip to Melbourne Australia in November.
Node Fest
Node Fest - Speakers
Yes Captain
Rich Nosworthy
Brett Morris
Mel Pragassen
Gareth & Lucas
Alan Dickson
Vera Babida
Mik...
2017-08-1131 minAtheists at the TableShow From : Sept. 30, 2009<span style="font-weight: bold;">This is the script from the September 30, 2009 show. It includes Godless Wisdom and the news items.</span><br /><br />Today we have an <a href="http://www.searchmagazine.org/May-June%202009/full-opensource.html">article from Search Magazine by Sam Kean entitled “Open to Revisions.”</a><br /><br /><blockquote>Sam Webster has serious tech credentials. He has lived for decades in the San Francisco Bay area, a techie Mecca. Back in the early 1990s, before most peop...
2009-10-0654 min