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.