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IM 843: Immortal Beloved, You've Arrived - AI's Emotional Intelligence Paradox

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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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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dr. Alan Cowen

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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 are incredibly sycophantic
  • Microsoft's Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships
  • Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon - Dexerto
  • A Definition of AGI
    OpenAI Finalizes Corporate Restructuring, Gives Microsoft 27% Stake and Technology Access Until 2032 - Slashdot
  • This mom's son was asking Tesla's Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
  • Nvidia Becomes World's First $5 Trillion Company - Slashdot
  • Paris Hilton Has Been Training Her AI for Years
  • How Realistic is OpenAI's 2028 Timeline For Automating AI Research Itself?
  • Tesla's "Mad Max" mode is now under federal scrutiny
  • Zenni's Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
  • Alphabet earnings
  • Meta earnings
  • You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Actually Is
  • Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
  • AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B
  • Casio's Fluffy AI Robot Squeaked Its Way Into My Heart
  • For the sake of the show, I will suffer this torture -jj
  • Machine Olfaction and Embedded AI Are Shaping the New Global Sensing Industry
  • A silly little photoshoot with your friends
  • Bugonia
  • Celebrating 25 years of Google Ads
  • The Data Is In: The Washington Post Can't Replace Its "TikTok Guy"
  • Peak screen?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dr. Alan Cowen

Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines.

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