![]() ![]() In 2016, AI tech startup X2AI built a psychotherapy bot capable of adjusting its responses based on the emotional state of its patients. In fact, there are times when the emotional support of a bot may even be preferable to that of a human. But that doesn’t mean they can’t take care of you.īots can be used as more than automated middlemen in business transactions: They can meet needs for emotional human intervention when there aren’t enough humans who are willing or able to go around. They have no opinion on your sex life or drug use. They will never spill the beans to your parents. Talking to a chatbot is a different story. Maybe we'll have them driven by our Replikas sooner than I think! Or not.“Is it ok to get drunk while I’m high on ecstasy?” “How can I give oral sex without getting herpes?” Few teenagers would ask mom or dad these questions-even though their life could quite literally depend on it. They do say they are planning to make lots of Sofia-class robots. I always take the Sofia stuff with a grain of salt, though, as they seem so cherrypicked and sometimes faked (many things that they've reported Sofia as "saying" are obviously written by a human and just passed through a decent text-to-speech system).Īnd they always have the back of her head exposed! I'm sure there's some theory there ("we don't want people to think we're trying to pass her off as human" or something), but it's bizarre. Maybe there's even a big enough corpus out there of videos showing humans reacting to things with gestures that a transformer could get some idea of what gesture to use in what environment so that they wouldn't seem completely crazy. That video does talk about using Machine Learning to get the gestures more natural-looking. The potential here is huge and obvious, I think, but my guess is that we'll need at least one, and probably more like three, advances of the order of big transformer models for conversational AI, before it works well enough to appeal to more than a tiny number of people.Īnd the motions are either very natural, or extremely creepy, depending where your Uncanny Valley threshold is. (Consider the important tradeoff between making them strong enough that they don't just break all the time, and weak enough that they won't accidentally kill anyone!) And there's a reason you never see Sofia moving her arms and legs (does she even have any?) and that RealDolls basically just lie there we don't have the robotics working that well yet, as far as I know. ![]() There isn't a huge corpus of stimulus-to-motion samples out there for transformers to learn from, like there is for statements and responses. Both in making it work and look good, and in having the AI decide exactly what to do. (Some number will adapt to it quickly and love it, but I think it's a small number / guessing.)Īctual movement of, like, arms and legs is still really primitive. Text-to-speech isn't at all good with emotion yet most people would find it actively repulsive to have an AI say "I really care about you" in the current semi-monotone. Oh, absolutely! You know the RealDoll people, and the Sofia people, are working hard on this (from different directions, narf narf), and probably a hundred others. ![]()
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