WEBVTT 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:10.419 Hey, it's Mukundan from Data and AI with Mukundan. 00:00:10.619 --> 00:00:13.380 Have you ever written something that looked right, 00:00:13.539 --> 00:00:18.199 sounded right, but just didn't feel right? Like 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:21.179 you hit publish on a blog post and instead of 00:00:21.179 --> 00:00:24.739 that warm glow of, yes, I nailed this, you feel 00:00:24.739 --> 00:00:28.800 kind of hollow? I've been there multiple times. 00:00:31.219 --> 00:00:34.859 So one day I just stopped guessing and I built 00:00:34.859 --> 00:00:38.359 an AI to tell me the truth. This is a story of 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.219 how I exposed the emotional blind spots in my 00:00:41.219 --> 00:00:45.280 writing using artificial intelligence. It's a 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:48.320 part emotional wake -up call, part tech deep 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:52.420 dive and all very very personal. So stay with 00:00:52.420 --> 00:00:58.479 me here. So I'd just written a 1500 word blog 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:01.920 post. I did everything right. I outlined it. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.620 I edited it. Reworked the sentences. My grammar 00:01:05.620 --> 00:01:09.469 was solid. My ideas were clear. But after all 00:01:09.469 --> 00:01:13.870 that work, something felt off. You know that 00:01:13.870 --> 00:01:15.969 feeling when someone smiles at you, but their 00:01:15.969 --> 00:01:18.549 eyes don't? That's what my writing felt like. 00:01:19.469 --> 00:01:24.370 On paper, it was fine. But emotionally, disconnected. 00:01:25.670 --> 00:01:30.129 Distant, in fact. And it scared me. Because why 00:01:30.129 --> 00:01:34.030 wouldn't it, right? Because I wasn't trying to 00:01:34.030 --> 00:01:40.870 be cold. I was trying to connect. Deeply. So 00:01:40.870 --> 00:01:43.549 I asked myself the question, that would change 00:01:43.549 --> 00:01:48.870 everything. What if I'm not writing too poorly, 00:01:49.010 --> 00:01:55.730 but too impersonally? And that thought haunted 00:01:55.730 --> 00:02:02.129 me. Until I did something kind of crazy. So I 00:02:02.129 --> 00:02:05.230 built an AI app to... Tell me the emotional truth. 00:02:05.450 --> 00:02:09.530 My words were hiding. So if you don't know me 00:02:09.530 --> 00:02:14.069 already from my previous work, I built a ton 00:02:14.069 --> 00:02:17.169 of little AI apps, I would call it. So these 00:02:17.169 --> 00:02:21.090 are like just simple AI apps that I use to make 00:02:21.090 --> 00:02:24.310 my life better. Because I think AI is here to 00:02:24.310 --> 00:02:30.030 help make us reach unbelievable heights. It's 00:02:30.030 --> 00:02:35.439 here to make our life really easy. And, you know, 00:02:35.460 --> 00:02:40.039 building an application using AI, that is just 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:43.800 my way of, you know, using AI to benefit my life. 00:02:44.300 --> 00:02:46.919 And I'm hoping to help others do the same, right? 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:49.080 So that's what I did here. I built an AI app 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:51.819 to tell me the emotional truth that my words 00:02:51.819 --> 00:02:57.300 in my blog post were hiding. So here's what I 00:02:57.300 --> 00:03:02.740 built. It's a simple Python based app. It uses 00:03:02.740 --> 00:03:06.800 streamlit library in the backend, but it analyzes 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:10.639 the tone of what you write, paragraph by paragraph. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:18.259 One model is from Hugging Face, which is a website 00:03:18.259 --> 00:03:21.139 where you get these amazing open -sourced models 00:03:21.139 --> 00:03:25.120 to use. So it could be something like image -to 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.099 -text classifier. So basically, I mean, so image 00:03:28.099 --> 00:03:30.219 -to -text conversion, so something where you 00:03:30.219 --> 00:03:33.500 want to... convert an image to text or text to 00:03:33.500 --> 00:03:39.039 an image the hugging face website would give 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:42.819 you these models to use which are open source 00:03:42.819 --> 00:03:45.740 and it could be someone from facebook or could 00:03:45.740 --> 00:03:48.180 be someone from airbnb for example right they 00:03:48.180 --> 00:03:52.900 could be open sourcing these models and making 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:55.139 them available to you so that you can use it 00:03:55.139 --> 00:03:58.639 to build that amazing text to image classifier 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:02.400 or text to image converter that I know you can. 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:07.500 So in this case, I used this model from Hugging 00:04:07.500 --> 00:04:10.759 Face, like I mentioned. It detects emotions. 00:04:11.780 --> 00:04:18.199 It detects joy, frustration, sadness, excitement. 00:04:19.819 --> 00:04:26.680 And the other I used was GPT -4, which is the 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:31.160 latest, one of the latest at this point. um gpt 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:34.899 is from chat gpt it at this point i think it 00:04:34.899 --> 00:04:37.579 would be a bit more older but i mean yeah it 00:04:37.579 --> 00:04:43.420 is a gpt by chat gpt it tells me what tone it 00:04:43.420 --> 00:04:49.459 hears whether it's confident apologetic casual 00:04:49.459 --> 00:04:55.879 or robotic yeah if those don't match up the app 00:04:55.879 --> 00:05:02.170 flags it That's the emotional mismatch. And that's 00:05:02.170 --> 00:05:05.089 where my writing is betraying me. I ran my blog 00:05:05.089 --> 00:05:08.730 through it. And paragraph by paragraph, I saw 00:05:08.730 --> 00:05:13.870 it. My intro was meant to be uplifting. But it 00:05:13.870 --> 00:05:17.209 read uncertain. My conclusion was supposed to 00:05:17.209 --> 00:05:20.889 feel powerful. But the AI called it resigned. 00:05:22.329 --> 00:05:26.509 And I had to sit with that. Because it was right. 00:05:28.620 --> 00:05:31.300 So I used that feedback to rewrite the post, 00:05:31.500 --> 00:05:35.180 not just for clarity, but for that connection. 00:05:37.139 --> 00:05:40.480 That's when my writing started to feel like me 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:46.060 again. So here's where I went deeper, right? 00:05:46.819 --> 00:05:51.800 I wanted the tone detector to know me, to know 00:05:51.800 --> 00:06:00.889 my quirks, my voice, my style. So I trained a 00:06:00.889 --> 00:06:05.269 model to use my own writing. So I labeled these 00:06:05.269 --> 00:06:09.610 paragraphs as this is neutral or this feels warm 00:06:09.610 --> 00:06:16.509 or this is trying too hard. Then I fine -tuned 00:06:16.509 --> 00:06:23.189 a model on those labels. Now, when I run new 00:06:23.189 --> 00:06:27.029 writing through it, it doesn't just judge me. 00:06:27.970 --> 00:06:31.970 Based on these generic emotion categories, it 00:06:31.970 --> 00:06:36.750 checks if my writing sounds like me. Not like 00:06:36.750 --> 00:06:41.389 a perfect writer, but like a real one. And that's 00:06:41.389 --> 00:06:44.810 when something magical happened. My blog started 00:06:44.810 --> 00:06:47.790 getting more comments like, this really spoke 00:06:47.790 --> 00:06:52.709 to me. I wasn't trying harder. See, I wasn't 00:06:52.709 --> 00:06:55.050 trying harder. It's just, I was trying to be 00:06:55.050 --> 00:06:59.430 real. And being real is what helps you connect 00:06:59.430 --> 00:07:03.290 with people, right? And surprisingly, AI got 00:07:03.290 --> 00:07:09.430 me there. So here's what I learned. We spend 00:07:09.430 --> 00:07:13.850 hours tweaking grammar, structure, word choice. 00:07:14.990 --> 00:07:20.889 But if the tone's off, none of it lands. Tone 00:07:20.889 --> 00:07:26.829 is invisible, but it is everything. It's... Why 00:07:26.829 --> 00:07:34.250 a helpful email feels condescending. It's why 00:07:34.250 --> 00:07:39.209 a passionate tweet sounds arrogant. It's why 00:07:39.209 --> 00:07:44.329 your heartfelt blog sounds robotic. Yeah, I just 00:07:44.329 --> 00:07:49.629 do this robot voice. So we are blind to our own 00:07:49.629 --> 00:07:54.889 emotional inconsistencies. But AI, it doesn't 00:07:54.889 --> 00:08:00.939 flinch. It reflects. It shows us our blind spots. 00:08:03.019 --> 00:08:07.819 And if we are brave enough to look, it can help 00:08:07.819 --> 00:08:11.000 us connect in ways we didn't even know we were 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:16.120 missing. So let me ask you something. When was 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:20.399 the last time you asked your words how they feel? 00:08:21.100 --> 00:08:23.300 You asked how your words felt exactly, right? 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:28.000 Previously, I was just trying to give these words 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:33.960 a person. I mean, a feeling of a person. But 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:36.580 like if you asked how your words felt to people 00:08:36.580 --> 00:08:38.620 or maybe to yourself, just ask that to yourself. 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:44.399 Not just what you said, but what you meant and 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:50.240 how it actually landed. So you can try building 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:52.679 the app that I have linked in the show notes. 00:08:55.179 --> 00:08:57.559 So the whole code is on there. You should be 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:00.179 able to build it yourself. It's pretty easy and 00:09:00.179 --> 00:09:03.799 it's free, obviously. Free with the medium membership. 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:08.200 Just copy paste a paragraph of your writing into 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:13.080 ChatGPT and ask, what is the emotional tone of 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:17.620 this paragraph? You might be shocked. You might 00:09:17.620 --> 00:09:21.159 be validated. But either way, you'll be more 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:26.929 aware. Because that's what makes great communication 00:09:26.929 --> 00:09:32.730 today. Not perfection. Not even cleverness. But 00:09:32.730 --> 00:09:38.870 honest, emotionally resonant connection. Hey, 00:09:38.889 --> 00:09:42.330 so that's all for this episode. But if this resonated 00:09:42.330 --> 00:09:44.549 with you, please share this episode with a friend 00:09:44.549 --> 00:09:49.230 who writes, blogs, or speaks for a living. Better 00:09:49.230 --> 00:09:52.590 yet, share it with someone whose words matter. 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:56.299 Because the world doesn't need more content. 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:01.320 It needs more felt truth. It needs more truth. 00:10:01.379 --> 00:10:05.820 It needs people to be more themselves. And thanks 00:10:05.820 --> 00:10:08.019 for listening to Data Anya with Mukundan. And 00:10:08.019 --> 00:10:08.860 see you in the next one.