Re:Forget virtual assistants, Asteria wants to be your AI fr...
by sapphireblue on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:01PM
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>Promising to deliver an AI that people could see as a friend is absolutely insane though. I don't see people being friends with something that couldn't complete the Turing Test
This is an interesting case. Turns out, given a creative approach it is possible to persuade a human that there is another human behind the screen. See ELIZA, "Turing tests".
The methods are quite similar: constrain the domain and/or creatively manipulate human's expectations (e.g. the program that "passed" the Turing Test pretended to be a 13-year boy, so human jury tolerated its errors).
The question is not how to fool humans but how to make such product non-trivially useful.
I think that the best approach currently available is applied in facebook M - use human workers to interact with customers while storing all interaction data and experimenting with training state of art ML models on it to eventually replace human workers.
This is an interesting case. Turns out, given a creative approach it is possible to persuade a human that there is another human behind the screen. See ELIZA, "Turing tests". The methods are quite similar: constrain the domain and/or creatively manipulate human's expectations (e.g. the program that "passed" the Turing Test pretended to be a 13-year boy, so human jury tolerated its errors). The question is not how to fool humans but how to make such product non-trivially useful.
I think that the best approach currently available is applied in facebook M - use human workers to interact with customers while storing all interaction data and experimenting with training state of art ML models on it to eventually replace human workers.