A robot with a sense of humor, which knows when and how to laugh, was created by Japanese researchers.
Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have developed a robot with an artificial intelligence system that gives it a sense of humor and the ability to laugh according to the occasion.
The robot appropriately reacts to human laughter with its own laughter and in this way creates the feeling of empathy and better communication.
Japanese researchers have endowed the humanoid robot Erica with an “intelligent” interactive laughter system, aiming to improve the naturalness of communication between humans and machines.
The new AI system has three subsystems: One that detects human laughter, one that decides whether to laugh in response to something funny, and one that chooses the appropriate type of laughter for the occasion (polite and discreet, loud and hilarious, etc.) .
The sense of humor acquired by “Erica” ​​thanks to the integration of the new system was then tested in short dialogues of two to three minutes between a human and the robot, in order to confirm that the latter does not always laugh even when it does not need to, that it does not he remains mute when he should laugh and that he laughs in an appropriate way that shows understanding and empathy. The new system appeared to be doing better than expected.
The team, led by Associate Professor Koji Inoue of the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, made the relevant publication in the Robotics journal “Frontiers in Robotics and AI”,
Of course laughter is only one aspect of a natural conversation between a human and a machine. As Inoue said, “Robots should have a distinct character and can show this through their dialogue behaviors, such as laughing, looking, gesturing, and speaking style. But we don’t think this is an easy problem at all, and it will probably be more than 10 to 20 years before we finally get to have a conversation with a robot like we would with a friend.”
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