16. Introducing Hume...The First Empathic Voice AI

In this week's episode we leave ChatGPT behind to talk to Hume, the new empathic AI announced last week. We talk about how exactly Hume differs from text-based large language models like ChatGPT and Claude, and how it can respond so quickly. Then we dive into a few of the potential places where Hume has a big advantage over text-based models like ChatGPT.

For those interested, the entire episode was recorded this week in Descript, and this was my first long chat with Hume. Previously I had only asked a few test questions. Hume definitely felt a lot more natural to talk to and required a lot less editing, since the long, awkward pauses between when I finished speaking and the AI started weren't there.