Evaluating Large Language Models' (LLMs) anthropomorphic capabilities has

Evaluating Large Language Models' (LLMs) anthropomorphic capabilities has

This study explores a new method in food development by utilizing AI including generative AI, aiming to craft products that delight the senses and resonate with consumers' emotions. The food ingredient recommendation approach used in this study can be considered as a form of multimodal generation in a broad sense, as it takes text as input and outputs food ingredient candidates. This Study focused on producing "Romance Bread," a collection of breads infused with flavors that reflect the nuances of a romantic Japanese television program. We analyzed conversations from TV programs and lyrics from songs featuring fruits and sweets to recommend ingredients that express romantic feelings. Based on these recommendations, the bread developers then considered the flavoring of the bread and developed new bread varieties. The research included a tasting evaluation involving 31 participants and interviews with the product developers. Findings indicate a notable correlation between tastes generated by AI and human preferences. This study validates the concept of using AI in food innovation and highlights the broad potential for developing unique consumer experiences that focus on emotional engagement through AI and human collaboration.

Different linguistic expressions can conceptualize the same event from different viewpoints by emphasizing certain participants over others. Here, we investigate a case where this has social consequences: how do linguistic expressions of gender-based violence (GBV) influence who we perceive as responsible? We build on previous psycholinguistic research in this area and conduct a large-scale perception survey of GBV descriptions automatically extracted from a corpus of Italian newspapers. We then train regression models that predict the salience of GBV participants with respect to different dimensions of perceived responsibility. Our best model (fine-tuned BERT) shows solid overall performance, with large differences between dimensions and participants: salient _focus_ is more predictable than salient _blame_, and perpetrators' salience is more predictable than victims' salience. Experiments with ridge regression models using different representations show that features based on linguistic theory similarly to word-based features. Overall, we show that different linguistic choices do trigger different perceptions of responsibility, and that such perceptions can be modelled automatically. This work can be a core instrument to raise awareness of the consequences of different perspectivizations in the general public and in news producers alike.

Dogs are devoted companions that offer unwavering loyalty to their humans, but new research has exposed the full extent of their inner green-eyed monster. Anecdotal evidence from owners is now backed up by scientists which have found pet pooches get jealous when their human strokes another dog. But research has also found dogs can get jealous just by imagining their owner is fussing another dog, even when they can't see the interaction. 'Research has supported what many dog owners firmly believe -- dogs exhibit jealous behaviour when their human companion interacts with a potential rival,' said study lead author Amalia Bastos from the University of Auckland. 'We wanted to study this behaviour more fully to determine if dogs could, like humans, mentally represent a situation that evoked jealousy.'

"Many a true word hath been spoken in jest." "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on." "There was a star danced, and under that was I born." Who can write like Shakespeare? Or even just spell like Shakespeare?

"Many a true word hath been spoken in jest." "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on." "There was a star danced, and under that was I born." Who can write like Shakespeare? Or even just spell like Shakespeare?

Emotional intelligence is the key for acceptance of intelligent agents by humans as equal partners, e.g., in ad hoc teams. At the same time, its existing implementations in intelligent agents are mostly limited to basic affects. Currently, there is no consensus in the understanding of complex and social emotions at the level of functional and computational models. The approach of this work is based on the mental state formalism, originally developed as a part of the cognitive architecture GMU BICA and recently extended to include affective building blocks (A.V. Samsonovich, AAAI Technical Report WS-12-06: 109-116, 2012). In the present work, complex social emotions like humor, jealousy, compassion, shame, pride, etc. are identified as emergent patterns of appraisals represented by schemas, that capture the cognitive nature of these emotions and enable their modeling. A general model of complex emotions and emotional relationships is constructed that can be validated by simulations of emotionally biased interactions and emergent relationships in small groups of agents. The framework will be useful in cognitive architectures for designing human-like-intelligent social agents possessing a sense of humor and other human-like emotionally intelligent capabilities.