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I've been interested in conversational bots and how they might be used for purposes that are more fun than customer service. I'm specifically interested in idea
by ianbicking 5y ago
I've been interested in conversational bots and how they might be used for purposes that are more fun than customer service. I'm specifically interested in ideas that are silly, or emotionally salient, or weird, or anything that's not productive and not commercial.
I have been poking around with some stuff, but mostly just ideas in my head. So for "collaboration" I mostly imagine getting ideas from each other, trying each other's stuff out, all very low commitment. Like you know when you find someone who when you talk about ideas together and you both come away more excited than when you started? If there's any community where people do hang out like this that would be cool, though the tedious and tired commercial chatbot discussion seems to dominate.
Some thoughts I've had:
1. How do you make a really creepy bot? (Barring profanity, racism, etc) Sometimes people worry about creepy bots but I honestly am not sure how a bot would be creepy. Making one on purpose might be a way to find out
2. Bots are often very reactive without any will of their own. What kind of personality or (imagined) motivation might make a bot proactive? Would that solve some of the "I don't know what you mean" problem of a chatbot? Like instead of a bland response when the bot doesn't understand, it can instead push back on what it cares about.
3. In this vein I've thought about a depressed bot, and your job is to find a way to cheer it up.
4. User-programmable bots. I've been thinking about this in user-buildable VR worlds. The worlds are all so empty. Can we make it feasible for a person to create their own NPCs?
5. Can a bot be loving and supportive? If it's just a façade, how good of a façade is enough to generate emotional response?
6. How do mediums like text vs voice impact this stuff?
- crummy 5y agoHave you read about Jason Rohrer's stuff? Project December? Here's a great article about it from an end-users perspective: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation...
- muzani 5y agoGPT-3 does a lot of this very well, albeit expensively. Sample scenario: A woman discovers her husband's infidelity and struggles to hide her anger when he asks for a stack of pancakes. Output: She said, "It can't be done. We're out of flour and eggs." He asked, "No powdered eggs?" She said, "We're out of everything." He said, "I was hoping you might have some pancake mix in the pantry." She replied, "It's so dark in there, I couldn't see anything if I tried. Why don't you go to the store?" He said, "In this weather? It's snowing like crazy outside." She said, "Weren't you up half the night playing cards with your friends? And staying up half the night is what got us into this mess in the first place." Anyway, love to chat on this kind of thing. Email is on my profile.
- ianbicking 5y agoBTW, you don't have your email in your profile. The email field is only visible to admins, if you want to make it public you'll have to also put it in About. But maybe we'll chat sometime :)
- dv35z 5y agoCheck out https://replika.ai/ https://replika.ai/. Turn on AR mode, so it's a "person" in your living room. They gave the AI bots some actual personality - it'll ask your opinions on ideas, etc. Have fun.