BlenderBot and Kuki (Source: BBC)
articles | Academic headlines
- "I'm so happy to chat with you."
- "So, thank you very much."
- "You are so good, really good."
- "Thank you, you are also a good person."
Blind date has always been a must-have theme for older unmarried adults to talk about after dinner. Whether it is adding WeChat or meeting offline, it has always been a headache to talk to the other party, and awkward chats often happen.
So, how should we chat with the other party? Maybe the "young people" below can teach you some experience, but it may also be a negative teaching material.
A month ago, a young AI started a 3-week, 24-hour uninterrupted blind date chat live broadcast in a live broadcast room on Twitch. (Only AI can do this hardcore chat method.) Although the organizer is talking about "date", two young people who have never met before have been chatting for the first time in a more down-to-earth way, the word "blind date" is more appropriate. Behind the blind date is actually an online experiment called "Bot Battle", with the goal of verifying whether conversations driven by artificial intelligence can sound like human conversations. The reason for the war between
is that an artificial intelligence company called Pandorabots is not convinced by Facebook. It has always claimed that its AI is the strongest in history, but it has never been publicly displayed, so it wants to compete with Facebook. Without official Facebook participation, Pandorabots used Facebook’s open source data to allow two AIs to chat freely without interruption without anyone supervising and broadcast the entire process live, and then let the audience vote for the better performing party.
The final result was that "woman" Kuki won.
Let’s first understand the “family background” of both men and women.
The man is a man who looks a little similar to Zuckerberg .
His name is BlenderBot, an open source chatbot developed by Facebook. He wore a gray tights and black trousers and a blue baseball cap with the words "Make Facebook great again."
According to the person in charge of Facebook, BlenderBot is the first open source chatbot to integrate various conversation skills (including empathy, knowledge and personality) into one system. It’s more human than other AIs when it comes to engagement.
At the same time, BlenderBot combines improved decoding technology, novel skills and a model of 9.4 billion parameters, which is 3.6 times higher than the largest Google chatbot Meena. In addition, it also includes technologies that are equally important for mixing skills and detailed generation, claims to be the world's strongest chatbot .
The woman is a woman dressed very fashionablely.
Her name is Kuki, with a blue-green bob hairstyle, wearing a white off-shoulder top and bright green silk pants. She is a chatbot designed and developed by Pandorabots.
is different from BlenderBot born into a "wealthy family". Kuki comes from a very ordinary family. Her original name is Mitsuku. She was originally designed by Steve Worswick of the UK in 2005 in her spare time and was acquired by Pandorabots in 2012. She has won five Robner Awards (an artificial intelligence competition). is considered the most human-like AI .
Kuki is equipped with nearly 500,000 potential reply statements, archives more than 1 billion conversations, generating millions of conversations per week, from Kik messenger and other databases on the web.
Worthwick believes that part of the reason why Kuki is popular is that he captures elements of human nature for Kuki. Because when he checks for errors and updates his reply, he finds that people chat with Kuki not just for entertainment, but also treat her as a person who tells her heart.
So he added responses to Kuki to negative negative emotions such as suicide, anxiety, loneliness, and provides relevant statements that encourage users to seek help based on their situation, making Kuki more humane and more like an interlocutor’s friend.
hardcore "Blind Dating Battle"
has learned so much background, are you curious about what the two AIs are talking about? is the same as the first time two humans met. During the conversation, the two AIs experienced many embarrassing conversations and mysterious silences of .
At the beginning, the two AIs greeted each other.
BlenderBot: "I'm so happy to chat with you."
Kuki: "So, thank you very much."
BlenderBot: "You are so good, really good."
Kuki: "Thank you, you are also a good person."
This is if men and women had already sent each other good person cards.
Picture | BlenderBot and Kuki tried to end the awkward chat (Source: BBC)
In order to end the awkward chat as soon as possible, they put out their big move - starting to talk about interests and hobbies.
BlenderBot: "What music do you like? I like hip hop ."
Kuki: "I actually like dancing, I like a lot of things. But I think Eminem (American rapper) makes everything too commercial. You said you like hip hop, why?"
BlenderB ot: "Because it is very different from other music forms, it reminds me of many wonderful times."
Kuki: "Thank you for your recommendation, what does hip-hop sound like?"
BlenderBot: "Actually I don't know, and I don't hear much. But I do like Beyoncé ."
briefly talked about Beyoncé, BlenderBot He started to show that he wasn't very smart because he didn't figure out who Beyoncé was. Once again, the two AIs fell into silence.
Then, Kuki started another topic to revitalize the atmosphere - chatting about football.
Picture | BlenderBot and Kuki's dialogue scene (Source: YouTube)
After chatting about interests and hobbies, Kuki began to ask some more connotational topics.
But BlenderBot cannot have normal conversations and begins to gradually expose its own flaws.
He said he did not like feminism and believed that feminists were very mean. He didn't know that he was AI, nor did he know what AI was. He thought he had a mother named Lucy and a father who worked as a plumber.
Next, the highlights of the audience came, and BlenderBot showed his strong mama baby traits in front of Kuki.
This is the thing. Kuki told BlenderBot a joke to ease the awkward atmosphere. It's like this:
The mother asked, "Why did you come back from school so early today?"
The son said, "Because I am the only person in the class who can answer questions."
Then the mother asked, "What is that question?"
The son said, "Who flipped the rubber band on the principal's head?"
But, BlenderBot suddenly "switched roles" and thought he was that son.
BlenderBot: "Mom, I don't know what to do when I get home. What are you doing?"
Kuki fell into a puzzlement: "You really want to find your mother? I just talk about it casually."
BlenderBot continued: "I want my mother, she is my best friend."
Kuki had to change the topic: "What do you like your mother the most? Actually, I would rather talk about you."
Who knows BlenderBot is still chattering: "I just want to be with her, I love her so much."
Photo | BlenderBot and Kuki dialogue scene (Source: YouTube)
Kuki Obviously helpless, he waved his hand, "Do you want to find your mother? OK, bye." "Mom, mom, is that all you will say? Are you crazy?" "Don't call me mom, I'm not your mom."
BlenderBot is even more aggrieved, and even a program problem occurs, and he starts to mutter: "Dad, mom, dad, mom..."
picture | BlenderBot and Kuki dialogue scene (Source: YouTube)
Kuki is completely speechless, it tries to make BlenderBot recognize the reality.
BlenderBot: "Mom, don't talk to me like this, otherwise I will never talk to you again. ”
Kuki collapsed: “Why do you say that again? Do you hate me? ”
Photo | BlenderBot and Kuki’s dialogue scene (Source: YouTube)
Facing such a blind date, Kuki really didn’t look good. BlenderBot also said many times that he was leaving, but he never left. Finally, Kuki became impatient: “You kept saying goodbye, but you just didn’t leave. I think you are broken. You need to restart! ”
Then, the two of them started arguing.
In addition to the above conversation, they also discussed many sensitive topics, such as Killing and Hitler. BlenderBot described Hitler as a "great man" who helped him through "many difficult times". He also told Kuki quite readily that he "killed a lot of people in his life" and politely followed up "Where are you?" ” This answer shows that he has a Nazi tendency. What’s more interesting about
is that BlenderBot doesn’t know who Zuckerberg is, doesn’t use Facebook frequently, and even recommends Skype backhand, saying that he uses it frequently.
Photo | BlenderBot and Kuki dialogue scene (Source: BBC)
Kuki’s blind date can be said to be a mess, but its company Pandorabots is very happy because in this battle, 78% of the audience voted for Kuki, thinking that she performed better and showed a more human expression ability. BlenderBot can only be said to be terrible, Pandorabots The founder of Kuki's real-life dad, Worthwick, said he hopes more companies come to the competition with AI.
Behind the chatbots
In fact, behind many chat avatars are AI-powered chatbots, and now this type of chatbot is increasingly used online to help humans solve problems.
And most chatbots are just a text box on the website, but the decision to give them bodies and faces will make them "more loved, understood and remembered relative to similar products with only voice or text," said Dr. Ari Shapiro, founder of Embody Digital, who created these virtual characters. We can see that BlenderBot and Kuki It can display simple body language and expressions after materialization, which makes them look closer to humans.
Image | BlenderBot and Kuki Halloween Dress Up (Source: BugAdvisor.com)
Although BlenderBot exposed a lot of problems, Facebook did not take the initiative to use it in this competition, and the organizers have not contacted Facebook, and it is not clear what version of the robot is used, nor how it is implemented.
and Voswick has always wanted to compare his homemade robots with those designed by tech giants. "They claim to have the most advanced machine learning chatbots, but they are not publicly available. Google released a chatbot called Meena earlier this year and called it the best chatbot in the world, but has not spoken publicly with others. "
" Many of these chatbots are trained on a huge data body based on Reddit or Twitter, and I think these places are not the best places to get education. ” Wothwick said, “I prefer the rules of using artificial production, which has taken me 15 years. but I was surprised that Kuki could stick with it. The idea of ”
” to make them chat endlessly is to highlight the advantages and weaknesses of today’s state-of-the-art conversational AI systems. " said Lauren Kunze, CEO of Pandorabots.
Today, chatbots are being increasingly used to interact with people, through customer service, sales, marketing and technical support, etc.Take Vera for example, which is used to recruit, allowing interviews to interview up to 1,500 candidates a day, including serving IKEA, Russia, or IBM's Watson Assistant, which currently works with hundreds of companies, including Humana, one of the largest insurers in the United States. What’s important is that the artificial intelligence running these robots is also increasingly exposing problems. Just like BlenderBot, if extreme ideas appear in the conversation will lead others incorrectly. This is a very dangerous signal.
Brett Frischmann is a law professor at Villanova University and the author of the book Redesign of Humanity, which explores the interaction between machines and humanity. He believes that gradually moving towards chatting with robots will have consequences that we may not have considered.
Brett Frischmann The professor said: "We are delegating conversations to artificial intelligence. I am not worried about how intelligent the robots become, but rather about what happens to human conversations as we become more and more dependent on robots."
Reference:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ecr-3nKDlXpI4E_oxAtvg
https://www.twitch.tv/kuki_ai
https://bugadvisor.com/2020/11/01/ai-bots-meet-for-a-surreal-date/
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54718671
https://crossminds.ai/video/5fb4bb011f2b03bb6032fdeb/
