Emotionally-Intelligent AI, Empathy, and AI Ethics | millionways' Martin Cordsmeier & Max Weidemann

On the first episode of the AI For All Podcast, Martin Cordsmeier and Max Weidemann from millionways join Ryan Chacon and Neil Sahota to discuss emotionally-intelligent AI, artificial empathy, and AI ethics. They talk about the applications of emotionally-intelligent AI, whether AI is more empathetic than the average person, AI in mental health, using AI to understand one's self, and whether AI should be able to make decisions autonomously.

Martin Cordsmeier is the co-founder and CEO of millionways, which began as a non-profit organization. As millionways grew, it pivoted to for-profit, and Martin moved to the US with his co-founder. Martin published a book about his belief that mental health starts with understanding yourself and your unconscious traits and patterns.

Max Weidemann is the co-founder and CTO of millionways. After graduating from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany with a Master's degree in Mathematics, he became a self-taught full-stack developer primarily interested in Applied Machine Learning and AI. After co-founding the start-up, millionways, with Martin in Germany, he moved to the US to further develop, scale, and market their technology.

millionways brings emotional intelligence to AI. millionways' technology can be used to give any platform the ability to learn its users' unique personality traits, hopes, fears, and ambitions and to ultimately create a deeply personalized user experience, with explainable outputs and more nuanced and empathetic than the typical AI black box.

More about millionways: https://millionways.me

Connect with Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cordsmeier/

Connect with Max: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-weidemann/

Key Questions and Topics from This Episode:

(00:00) Intro to the AI For All Podcast

(00:44) Intro to Martin, Max, and millionways

(01:04) What is emotionally-intelligent AI?

(05:05) Artificial empathy and psychological AI

(08:17) Applications of emotionally-intelligent AI

(09:44) Is AI more empathetic than humans?

(13:56) How is AI helping with mental health?

(16:09) The evolution of emotionally-intelligent AI

(18:35) Domain expertise

(23:18) Using AI to understand yourself

(25:36) Will humans ever have to empathize with AI?

(28:16) Danger of AI that has only one goal

(29:28) Do humans need to believe the AI understands them?

(31:49) Ethics of personal AI

(34:29) Should AI make decisions?

(40:24) AI ethics, politics, and negotiation

(42:37) Learn more about millionways

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