Shifting and drifting attention while reading: A case study of nonlinear-dynamical attention allocation in the OpenCog cognitive architecture

Belachew, Misgana Bayetta; Goertzel, Ben; Iklé, Matthew; Hanson, David

doi:10.1016/j.bica.2018.07.005

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“…The comments were collected through an automatic software. 1 Due to the high content volume, the comment analysis was performed with quantitative methods largely using automatic tools, based on machine learning algorithms (indicated with a black label in Fig. 2), and to a lesser extent using a not automatic content analysis (gray label).…”

Section: Content Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sophia's software has been programmed to show pre-coded behaviors, including pre-written responses to specific questions or phrases, like a chatbot [18,23]. Her capacity to answer appropriately is used to create the illusion that she is conversing as a human would, thanks to the software components which recognize and mirror a human's facial expressions and vocal quality [1,18]. The information is shared in a cloud network allowing input and responses to be analyzed with blockchain technology [39].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The robot Sophia has been part of the "Loving AI" project in which a software system was developed to enable robots to engage with people in loving and compassionate ways in order to promote people's self-understanding and self-transcendence [19]. Sophia's behavior is guided by the open-source software framework OpenCog [18], which includes a motivational system, OpenPsi [6], in order to assess the appropriate behavior the robot should engage in [1,29]. Due to its nature, Sophia behavior is designed by numerous aspects including natural language dialogue, gestural interaction, emotion via facial expression [35] and tone of voice, and recognition of human face, body and voice emotion [19].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Rise of the Roboid

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The aim of this paper is to analyze a new phenomenon that is emerging in the field of social robotics, which we name as “roboid”. The roboid is a robot that is still at the prototype stage but claims to be fully functioning. We argue that the roboid has been created to handle a new phase between the prototyping and the commercialization of robots. In this intermediate phase, a wide-spread promotional campaign is organized by robot producers, with the purpose of understanding the desires, needs, and suggestions of potential customers. We present the first case of a a highly human-like roboid named Sophia. We carried out the visual analysis of the content and the content-agnostic factors of a selection of 15 videos uploaded on YouTube on the social robot Sophia and a qualitative analysis of the textual component of these videos to investigate a selected part of the promotional campaign on Sophia. Furthermore, on the 23,810 comments that users have posted on these videos, we applied quantitative analysis to explore the observers’ opinions about Sophia. Results highlight that: (1) a powerful but potentially ridiculous narrative has been used to build the rhetoric of Sophia; (2) the comments on the videos are too poor to enable a co-construction of this social robot with the audiences (implicit intention of Hanson Robotics); (3) the introduction of the roboid might be a very good solution to reduce the uncertainties that may occur when a new robot moves directly from the laboratory to the market.

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Section: Content Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%