robot ai
Designing and Evaluating Dialogue LLMs for Co-Creative Improvised Theatre
Branch, Boyd, Mirowski, Piotr, Mathewson, Kory, Ppali, Sophia, Covaci, Alexandra
Social robotics researchers are increasingly interested in multi-party trained conversational agents. With a growing demand for real-world evaluations, our study presents Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed in a month-long live show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This case study investigates human improvisers co-creating with conversational agents in a professional theatre setting. We explore the technical capabilities and constraints of on-the-spot multi-party dialogue, providing comprehensive insights from both audience and performer experiences with AI on stage. Our human-in-the-loop methodology underlines the challenges of these LLMs in generating context-relevant responses, stressing the user interface's crucial role. Audience feedback indicates an evolving interest for AI-driven live entertainment, direct human-AI interaction, and a diverse range of expectations about AI's conversational competence and utility as a creativity support tool. Human performers express immense enthusiasm, varied satisfaction, and the evolving public opinion highlights mixed emotions about AI's role in arts.
Robots AI: Boring Is Beautiful
During the past year, there have been major implosions of robot startups, such as with Jibo, Anki and Rethink Robotics. They all raised substantial amounts of capital from top-tier investors and had strong teams. One of the main reasons is the extreme complexities of melding software and movable hardware. As a result, the technology often does not live up to expectations. Even with the strides in AI โ such as deep learning -- there is still much to do.
Top tips for living and working with robots / artificial intelligence TEWeek17
"Robots today are being designed to do dull, repetitive, dangerous, and time-consuming jobs that will free up our time for more rewarding activities. The more users embrace the technology, the more they will get out of it." "Whilst robots will be helpful in many roles, they will still struggle with things that we find easy. By working together, robots and humans will be able to achieve more than we would alone. "The research suggests that children may need to think more carefully about their GCSE and A Level options to prepare them for the world of work. "What's clear is that almost every job will require a degree of understanding about how robots and AI work, so in that sense it has never been more important that young people consider engineering in their careers.