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While companies promise a cyberpunk future with flying cars and humanoid robots, we are instead seeing the rise of AI chatbots marketed as romantic companions and virtual lovers. However, a recent Mozilla report raises serious privacy concerns, finding that these romance chatbot apps are essentially data farms that manipulate...
AI-powered “counseling assistants” like AVA and Ivy are emerging tools that promise to ease the burden on overworked high school counselors and provide college admissions advice to underserved students. Proponents argue these AI chatbots can answer basic questions, draft application materials, and “democratize” expertise...
A 25-year-old woman expresses her concerns about her 23-year-old boyfriend’s unconventional beliefs regarding the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on society. Her boyfriend believes that by 2030, AI will become so advanced that it can solve all diseases and physics problems, and by...
Abstract: We look at consciousness through the lens of Theoretical Computer Science, a branch of mathematics that studies computation under resource limitations. From this perspective, we develop a formal machine model for consciousness. The model is inspired by Alan Turing’s simple yet powerful model of computation and...
Abstract: In the backdrop of the extensive global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental crises have, to a certain degree, taken a back seat. The pandemic-induced scarcity mindset, emphasizing immediate short-term needs over long-term considerations, has played a role in this shift in priorities. This scarcity mindset,...
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are currently designed and tested in many fields to improve humans’ ability to make decisions. One of these fields is higher education. For example, AI-based chatbots (“conversational pedagogical agents”) could engage in conversations with students in order to provide timely...
New York City’s AI chatbot that advises businesses continues to provide inaccurate and illegal guidance, despite Mayor Eric Adams acknowledging issues and promising improvements after an investigation revealed the bot’s troubling responses on labor laws, housing policies, and consumer rights. While the chatbot’s website...
Abstract: Reference resolution is an important problem, one that is essential to understand and successfully handle context of different kinds. This context includes both previous turns and context that pertains to non-conversational entities, such as entities on the user’s screen or those running in the background. While LLMs...
A new wave of tech companies are attempting to integrate artificial intelligence into wearable consumer devices, aiming to provide utopian convenience by allowing users to accomplish tasks like sending emails, scheduling meetings, or making calls through voice commands to AI assistants, without needing to use a smartphone. Early...
The author explores the potential role of AI chatbots in mental health care by engaging with a personalized, emotional chatbot. While impressed by the chatbot’s empathetic language and problem-solving abilities, the author recognizes limitations in forming a true human connection, providing normalization and reality-checking,...
Abstract: Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) has found extensive applications across various domains such as business, engineering, education, and academia, with supplier evaluation being a quintessential task among them. Traditional MCDM models typically gather quantitative and qualitative data through methods like...
Abstract: At the end of the second decade of the 21st century, it was accepted that robots and technology would replace mainly blue-collar and routine jobs, while professionals in human well-being and creativity would be needed in greater numbers. New tools like AI large language models, which are at the beginning of an...
Abstract: Persona identification helps AI-based communication systems provide personalized and situationally informed interactions. This paper introduces pre-training on CNN, BERT, and GPT models to improve persona detection on PMPC and ROCStories datasets. Two speakers with different personalities have dialogues in the PMPC...
Abstract: The integration of natural language processing (NLP) technologies into educational applications has shown promising results, particularly in the language learning domain. Many spoken open-domain chatbots have been used as speaking partners, helping language learners improve their language skills. However, one of the...
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Abstract: Generative Artificial Intelligence is set to revolutionize healthcare delivery by transforming traditional patient care into a more personalized, efficient, and proactive process. Chatbots, serving as interactive conversational models, will probably drive this patient-centered transformation in healthcare. Through the...
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Abstract: Under UNICEF’s framework on children’s rights and AI, we explore children’s priorities and concerns regarding the integration of social robots in everyday life. We conducted a series of four workshops in various children’s communities focused on introducing children to their rights with AI, fairness and...
