Move over, Siri! Researchers develop improv-based Chatbot
What would conversations with Alexa be like if she was a regular at The Second City?
Jul 15, 2020
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An evaluation metric for determining if a chatbot is just chatty, or engaging
From purchases to therapy to friendship, it seems as though theres a chatbot for just about everything.
Jul 10, 2020
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Meena is model of sensible conversation, outperforms other chatbots
Google's AI scientists have unveiled Meena. Tech watchers are calling it a chatbot breakthrough. Points for responses well matched to human intent. Points for relevant word choices. Points for (gasp) sounding sensible.
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Can a Siri-like chatbot help lonely seniors?
It's not quite the Joaquin Phoenix-Scarlett Johansson love story from 2013 romance "Her," but researchers believe an artificial intelligence chatbot may help relieve human loneliness, particularly in seniors.
Aug 21, 2019
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Researchers creating AI-powered chatbot to help families living with neurodevelopmental disabilities
A research team at the University of Alberta is using artificial intelligence to build a chatbot—a computer program that can simulate a human conversation through text or voice—to help families living with neurodevelopmental ...
Aug 12, 2019
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I, Chatbot: Getting your news from a talkative automaton
"Do you ever lie to your friends?," Jam asks, popping up in a private message box at the bottom of your screen.
Jun 16, 2019
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Adding human touch to unchatty chatbots may lead to bigger letdown
Sorry, Siri, but just giving a chatbot a human name or adding humanlike features to its avatar might not be enough to win over a user if the device fails to maintain a conversational back-and-forth with that person, according ...
Apr 18, 2019
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Empathetic machines favored by skeptics but might creep out believers
Most people would appreciate a chatbot that offers sympathetic or empathetic responses, according to a team of researchers, but they added that reaction may rely on how comfortable the person is with the idea of a feeling ...
Oct 31, 2018
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Improbotics: Bringing machine intelligence into improvised theatre
An unconventional company called HumanMachine has recently devised a unique theatre production called Improbotics, which involves both human performers and machines. This is the latest of a series of projects and initiatives ...
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A real conversation piece: Social chatbot in China does phone talk
The voice is sweet, youthful but not childish, just vibrant enough to hit all the marks of a call from a good friend who can listen and react. It is not the voice of a human. It is a chatbot to be exact. And oh, it can chat. ...
