8/30/2023 0 Comments Talk to mitsukuI couldn’t offend, so political jokes and anything off color would have to be removed. Retirement homes have strict privacy policies, and even when I was able to get aging people to try it, they were put off by the technology. After about a year of trying to convince retirement homes and the elderly to help train AnnA by having conversations with her (what we call the ‘feedback loop’ or repair cycle) I gave up. Why Anna stopped concentrating in the elderlyīack to AnnA. The jury is still out, as neither method has succeeded yet in fooling anyone into believing they are talking to a human (though I haven’t tried Meena). But what if we all worked together on a single artificial intelligence? Wouldn’t the outcome be indistinguishable from a human? Or is the big data approach of machine learning (ala Blender/Meena etc.) the way to crack the AGI and thinking machines? What if one hundred thousand people all wrote one or two insightful conversations centered on their expertise? Wouldn’t that cover most topics an average human could cover? In Kuki’s case it’s one man writing hundreds of thousands of responses. Or, in some bizarre universe, John Grisham. I kept thinking back to the notion that if you tied a thousand monkeys to a thousand typewriters, eventually one would churn out Moby Dick. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of conversational AI. I first spoke to Kuki in 2015, when I began my journey as a conversation designer. She helps lonely inmates, shut-ins, agoraphobes and anyone else who sits in front of their computer looking for companionship from all over the world. She’s helped thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people overcome loneliness while in quarantine during COVID-19. Kuki has her own opinions and she’s known for her sense of humor. Kuki is not a digital assistant like Siri. How Anna and Kuki can help during Covid-19 times Mitsuku is the Gold Standard for Conversational AI. ![]() ![]() Her creator, Steve Worswick, has spent over fifteen years writing and reviewing conversations and improving Kuki’s conversational abilities and understanding to the point where it becomes hard to distinguish her from an actual human. There’s little doubt in my mind that if the annual Loebner Competition is not canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus, Kuki will take home a sixth medal. That’s not just my opinion Kuki has won the coveted Loebner prize 5(!) times. ![]() Want to talk to Anna? Find her in this pageīots with an Agenda: How to humanize your chatbot In 2020 there’s no way for me to visit them (without putting them at risk). In 2017-2019 it was because I was too busy at work (making AnnA, among other bots). And, something to remind them of me (without the despair over me not becoming a doctor) since I would not be able to visit them as much as I liked. My parents were about to move to a retirement community in central Florida and I wanted to use my conversational AI designer skills to create a persona which could do more than give them basic answers to questions about the weather on their echo I wanted to give them an artificial persona with a sassy, fun personality. I started working on AnnA the Companionship Bot early in 2015. “Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.”
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