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Todays show:

Sunny Madra joins Jason to demo an AI that analyzes human expression (2:07), a generative gaming platform (23:26), Hugging Faces Assistants (39:12), and much more!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason

(2:07) Hume AI - AI toolkit to measure, understand, and improve how technology affects human emotion

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(7:57) Hume AI demo continued

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(20:25) AI Bet Update - Small model deployed on iphone/android

(23:26) FRVR AI - Generative AI to streamline game creation

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(35:19) Calling GPTS with @

(39:12) Hugging Face Assistants - LLM-powered assistants specialized in the Hugging Face ecosystem

(45:05) Eleven Labs ChatGPT

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Mentioned on the show:

Hume: https://beta.hume.ai

FRVR: https://beta.frvr.ai

Hugging Face Assistants: https://huggingface.co/chat/assistants

Eleven Labs ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-h0lbLuFF1-elevenlabs-text-to-speechhttps://twitter.com/dnystedt/status/1754323506056266149

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AI Demos: AI that interprets human emotion, Hugging Face Assistants, and more! | E1894

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AI Demos: AI that interprets human emotion, Hugging Face Assistants, and more! | E1894