Requirements for Artificial Companions
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Aaron Sloman
Abstract
Producing a system that meets plausible requirements for Artificial Companions (AC’s), without arbitrary restrictions, will involve solving a great many problems that are currently beyond the state of the art in Artificial Intelligence (AI); including problems that would arise in the design of robotic Companions helping an owner by performing practical tasks in the physical environment. In other words, even if the AC is not itself a robot and interacts with the user only via input devices such as camera, microphone, keyboard, mouse, touch-pad, and touch-screen, and output devices such as screen and audio output devices, nevertheless it will, in some circumstances, need the visual competences, the ontology, the representational resources, the reasoning competences, the planning competences, and the problem-solving competences that a helpful domestic robot would need. This is because some of the intended beneficiaries of ACs will need to be given advice about what physical actions to perform, what physical devices to acquire, and how to use such devices. I shall give examples illustrating the need for such competences.
Abstract
Producing a system that meets plausible requirements for Artificial Companions (AC’s), without arbitrary restrictions, will involve solving a great many problems that are currently beyond the state of the art in Artificial Intelligence (AI); including problems that would arise in the design of robotic Companions helping an owner by performing practical tasks in the physical environment. In other words, even if the AC is not itself a robot and interacts with the user only via input devices such as camera, microphone, keyboard, mouse, touch-pad, and touch-screen, and output devices such as screen and audio output devices, nevertheless it will, in some circumstances, need the visual competences, the ontology, the representational resources, the reasoning competences, the planning competences, and the problem-solving competences that a helpful domestic robot would need. This is because some of the intended beneficiaries of ACs will need to be given advice about what physical actions to perform, what physical devices to acquire, and how to use such devices. I shall give examples illustrating the need for such competences.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Foreword xi
- Acknowledgements xii
- Contributors xiii
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Section I. Setting the scene
- In good company? 3
- Introducing artificial Companions 11
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Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues
- Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges 23
- Conditions for Companionhood 29
- Arius in cyberspace 35
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Section III. Social and psychological issues
- Conversationalists and confidants 59
- Robots should be slaves 63
- Wanting the impossible 75
- Falling in love with a Companion 89
- Identifying your accompanist 95
- Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion 101
- New Companions 107
- On being a Victorian Companion 121
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Section IV. Design issues
- The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions 131
- GRETA 143
- A world-hybrid approach to a conversational Companion for reminiscing about images 157
- Companionship is an emotional business 169
- Artificial Companions in society 173
- Requirements for Artificial Companions 179
- You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you 201
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Section V. Special purpose Companions
- A Companion for learning in everyday life 211
- The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion 221
- Living with robots 245
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Section VI. Afterword
- Summary and discussion of the issues 259
- References 287
- Index 309
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Foreword xi
- Acknowledgements xii
- Contributors xiii
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Section I. Setting the scene
- In good company? 3
- Introducing artificial Companions 11
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Section II. Ethical and philosophical issues
- Artificial Companions and their philosophical challenges 23
- Conditions for Companionhood 29
- Arius in cyberspace 35
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Section III. Social and psychological issues
- Conversationalists and confidants 59
- Robots should be slaves 63
- Wanting the impossible 75
- Falling in love with a Companion 89
- Identifying your accompanist 95
- Look, emotion, language and behavior in a believable virtual Companion 101
- New Companions 107
- On being a Victorian Companion 121
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Section IV. Design issues
- The use of affective and attentive cues in an empathic computer-based Companions 131
- GRETA 143
- A world-hybrid approach to a conversational Companion for reminiscing about images 157
- Companionship is an emotional business 169
- Artificial Companions in society 173
- Requirements for Artificial Companions 179
- You really need to know what your bot(s) are thinking about you 201
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Section V. Special purpose Companions
- A Companion for learning in everyday life 211
- The Maryland virtual patient as a task-oriented conversational Companion 221
- Living with robots 245
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Section VI. Afterword
- Summary and discussion of the issues 259
- References 287
- Index 309
