Can AI Teach Itself to Improve Our Well-Being?

Hume AI and its nonprofit companion, The Hume Initiative, aim to measure human well-being through technology. Their mission is to align science and technology with human well-being by focusing on the study of expressive communication. Emotion science or affective science is an academic discipline that studies how emotions are elicited, experienced, and recognized in others. A related field known as affective computing trains machine learning models to recognize emotional behaviors. Hume AI's platform captures a nuanced representation of human expression and aims to build empathic AI systems that can improve our well-being.