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Conversational Agents, Humorous Act Construction, and Social Intelligence
Humans use humour to ease communication problems in human-human interaction and \ud
in a similar way humour can be used to solve communication problems that arise\ud
with human-computer interaction. We discuss the role of embodied conversational\ud
agents in human-computer interaction and we have observations on the generation\ud
of humorous acts and on the appropriateness of displaying them by embodied\ud
conversational agents in order to smoothen, when necessary, their interactions\ud
with a human partner. The humorous acts we consider are generated spontaneously.\ud
They are the product of an appraisal of the conversational situation and the\ud
possibility to generate a humorous act from the elements that make up this\ud
conversational situation, in particular the interaction history of the\ud
conversational partners
Active inference, evidence accumulation, and the urn task
Deciding how much evidence to accumulate before making a decision is a problem we and other animals often face, but one that is not completely understood. This issue is particularly important because a tendency to sample less information (often known as reflection impulsivity) is a feature in several psychopathologies, such as psychosis. A formal understanding of information sampling may therefore clarify the computational anatomy of psychopathology. In this theoretical letter, we consider evidence accumulation in terms of active (Bayesian) inference using a generic model of Markov decision processes. Here, agents are equipped with beliefs about their own behavior--in this case, that they will make informed decisions. Normative decision making is then modeled using variational Bayes to minimize surprise about choice outcomes. Under this scheme, different facets of belief updating map naturally onto the functional anatomy of the brain (at least at a heuristic level). Of particular interest is the key role played by the expected precision of beliefs about control, which we have previously suggested may be encoded by dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. We show that manipulating expected precision strongly affects how much information an agent characteristically samples, and thus provides a possible link between impulsivity and dopaminergic dysfunction. Our study therefore represents a step toward understanding evidence accumulation in terms of neurobiologically plausible Bayesian inference and may cast light on why this process is disordered in psychopathology
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Demarcations
In this paper we present a set of key demarcations, particularly important
when discussing ethical and societal issues of current AI research and
applications. Properly distinguishing issues and concerns related to Artificial
General Intelligence and weak AI, between symbolic and connectionist AI, AI
methods, data and applications are prerequisites for an informed debate. Such
demarcations would not only facilitate much-needed discussions on ethics on
current AI technologies and research. In addition sufficiently establishing
such demarcations would also enhance knowledge-sharing and support rigor in
interdisciplinary research between technical and social sciences.Comment: Proceedings of the Norwegian AI Symposium 2019 (NAIS 2019),
Trondheim, Norwa
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A qualitative logic of decision
An important aspect of intelligent behavior is the ability to reason, make decisions, and act in spite of uncertainty. This paper presents a qualitative logic of decision that supports decision-making under uncertainty. To be specific, the paper presents a knowledge representation language based upon subjective Bayesian decision theory that aims to capture some aspects of common-sense reasoning associated with making decisions about actions. The language addresses the problem of describing justifications of rational choices in situations where the alternatives involve trading off potential losses and gains. The logic and an associated qualitative arithmetic are implemented in an efficient PROLOG program. Examples illustrate their use in several concrete decision-making situations
Using a Machine Learning Approach to Implement and Evaluate Product Line Features
Bike-sharing systems are a means of smart transportation in urban
environments with the benefit of a positive impact on urban mobility. In this
paper we are interested in studying and modeling the behavior of features that
permit the end user to access, with her/his web browser, the status of the
Bike-Sharing system. In particular, we address features able to make a
prediction on the system state. We propose to use a machine learning approach
to analyze usage patterns and learn computational models of such features from
logs of system usage.
On the one hand, machine learning methodologies provide a powerful and
general means to implement a wide choice of predictive features. On the other
hand, trained machine learning models are provided with a measure of predictive
performance that can be used as a metric to assess the cost-performance
trade-off of the feature. This provides a principled way to assess the runtime
behavior of different components before putting them into operation.Comment: In Proceedings WWV 2015, arXiv:1508.0338
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