Robots Being Taught to Laugh at Human Jokes by the Reseachers
The robotic field has been taking certain new leaps with every day, creating them more like a human. Well, the researchers have been teaching these robots how to laugh at human jokes.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Researchers have been teaching these robots how to laugh at human jokes
- Erica was provided with teachings and training to make more natural conversations
- Researchers had created the use of a ‘shared laughter’ model
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The researchers at Kyoto University in Japan had done this with the assistance of artificial intelligence. The AI model has been teaching the robots regarding appropriate laughter along with differences between laughing out loud and milder chuckles.
Robot named Erica has been provided with the teachings and training it to make more natural conversations while communicating with humans.
An assistant professor and lead author at Kyoto University named Dr Koji Inoue had explained that, “We suppose that one of the necessary functions of conversational AI would be empathy. Conversation would be of course multimodal, not simply responding properly. Thus, we had decided that one way in which we would be able to empathize robots with users would be by sharing their laughter that you would not be able to do with a text-based chatbot.”
Researchers had created the use of a ‘shared laughter’ model that used AI to assist to detect laughter and choose whether to laugh and what laugh would be appropriate accordingly.
In order to test the AI system in between real people and Erica would be through the use of four short dialogues which would range from two or three minutes duration. Whereas, the approach appeared to be somewhat successful, where the researchers would feel that more work would be required to create more natural laugh-like scenario.
Inoue had added that, “Robots shall have a completely distinct character and we suppose that they would show this through their conversational behaviors, like laughing, eye gaze, gestures and speaking style. We actually don’t think that this would be considered as an easy problem at all and it might well take over 10 to 20 years before we could finally have an informal chat with a robot like we might with a friend.”
