Finally a word about the voice. There are many researchers who have studied voice gendering and its implications. In the HRI field, Katie Winkle and Ilaria Torre come to mind, for example. Some demos were flagrantly cringey because they leaned in hard into this zone.
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AI Interface Design: Balancing Adaptation and Human Connection
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Overall this jives with my dream of having an interface that adapts to the way humans communicate. But the elephant in the room is how to not go down the dystopian path of people getting too attached and neglecting real human relationships
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The Weird Tension: Befriending AI While Commanding It
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The laughter, the fillers make it immensely fun to talk to, like a friend! But do you also boss your friend around? This is the tension that feels WEIRD.
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AI translation breaking language barriers: capabilities and risks
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The use of social AI to overcome language barriers has been an everlasting use case that I think everyone can get behind. It does something humans really can't: speak tons of languages! It's C-3PO! But translation needs to be careful. You won't know if it's wrong.
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Power Dynamics in HRI: Gendered Voice Design Critique
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Yes, this is so cringey! The power dynamic, with the boss man + woman-presenting voice… So many HRI papers that have gone into why this sucks and also suggestions on what to do instead, cf. work by @KatieJWinkle and others
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Expressive Robot Voices: Designing Clear AI Identity
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What if a voice AI could be super expressive, but still *clearly* be a robot voice? Just like I want my robots to look like robots, not humans.
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OpenAI Must Address Safety Issues Before Scaling Models
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Sólo le pido a OpenAI que antes de abrir sus modelos al mundo y hacerlos más potentes, solucionen esto…
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Self-Awareness: Essential Criterion for Human-Level Intelligence
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Yeah, I think self awareness is required… without some kind of introspection and self thought it’s hard to call it human level intelligence
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AGI Builders Have Internal Definitions of Artificial General Intelligence
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I think people who are building AGI have their internal definitions.
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Kate Crawford discusses AI complexities with Eric Topol
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It was a real delight to speak with @EricTopol
, who has been tracking complex issues with AI for years.