Papers about Learning

The purpose of a chatbot program is generally to simulate conversation and entertain the user. More specialized chatbots have been created to assist with particular tasks, such as shopping. The golden standard that the general chatbot tries to achieve is to pass the Turing test, which means to generate conversation which is indistinguishable from that of a real person. State of the art chatbots have not yet reached this goal, which makes this field so... Read more

I claim that achieving real human-level artificial intelligence would necessarily imply that most of the tasks that humans perform for pay could be automated. Rather than work toward this goal of automation by building special-purpose systems, I argue for the development of general-purpose, educable systems that can learn and be taught to perform any of the thousands of jobs that humans can perform. Joining others who have made similar proposals, I advocate beginning with a... Read more

Research about interactive characters suggests substantial opportunities for them to enhance online experiences. Automated characters take advantage of social responses that are natural reactions to interactive media. They can be perceived as realistic and well- liked social partners in conversations that simulate real-world interactions. Characters can express social roles, emotions, and organized personalities that match learning goals, company brands, and transaction needs. Characters can increase the trust that users place in online experiences, in part... Read more

We propose an answer to the “What is AI?” question, namely, that AI is really (or at least really ought in significant part to be) Psychometric AI (PAI). Along the way, we: set out and rebut five objections to PAI; describe PERI, a robot in our lab who exemplifies PAI; and briefly treat the future of Psychometric AI, first by pointing toward some promising AI-based applications, and then by raising some of the “big” philosophical... Read more

This paper presents a pilot study involving 99 participants analysing conversations between Judges 2, 4 and 7, hidden humans (Confederates), and Jabberwock, bronze prize winner for most human-like machine from Loebner’s 2003 Contest, instantiation of Turing’s Test for machine intelligence. The transcripts from these conversations were given to children (aged between 8 and 12), and adults (aged between 18-35). The machine was identified in its conversation with Judge 7, but the Confederate Effect featured in... Read more

In my research, I evolve intelligent locomotive strategies in a population of embodied virtual agents. The virtual environment utilizes a physics engine to model real world dynamics. Previous work in this field include the virtual creatures evolved by Karl Sims (1994). This brief paper provides an overview of the results obtained during the research phase of my thesis. Read more

This paper unfolds the various aspects of ongoing evolution of Intelligent User Interfaces. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the field. Read more

The paper raises questions about images and pattern recognition related with audio/visual interrogation for AI and robotics technology. Read more

The advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is, and of how they differ from programs in general. Here we propose a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program. We also offer the beginnings of a natural kinds taxonomy of autonomous agents, and discuss possibilities for further classification. Finally, we discuss subagents and multiagent systems. Read more

The "information highway" will present us with an explosion of new computer-based tasks and services, but the complexity of this new environment will demand a new style of human-computer interaction, where the computer becomes an intelligent, active and personalized collaborator. Interface agents are computer programs that employ Artificial Intelligence techniques to provide active assistance to a user with computer-based tasks. Agents radically change the current user experience, through the metaphor that an agent can act... Read more