Fiammetta Pennisi
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“AI AS A FRIEND: DOES A CHATBOT RELATIONSHIP REALLY WORK?”
Can we develop feelings for an artificial intelligence? And how would this affect oureveryday conversations with a machine? SRF’s science program «Einstein» is conducting a unique AI experiment: Five participants let an AI chatbot into their lives for three weeks. Thequestion: Is AI any good yet as a flatmate, relationship partner or best friend? Will it always be a relationship between master and servant, as with digital assistants? Or will AI chatbots invade our routines and turn the conversations into something that feels pretty natural? And what if an AI suddenly challenges or deceives us? Could that even happen?
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Hidenobu Sumioka (Ph.D. eng.)
Hidenobu Sumioka is the leader of Presence Media Research Group in
Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories, ATR, Kyoto, Japan. He was also a senior
assistant at Artificial intelligence Laboratory directed by Prof. Rolf
Pfeifer in University of Zurich between 2010 and 2011. He received his
Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in
2008. His research interests include human-robot touch interaction,
social robots for elderly care, and investigation of the impact of a
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Masahiro Shiomi (Ph.D. eng.)
Masahiro Shiomi is a senior research scientist and a group leader of the
Agent Interaction Design Laboratory at the Interaction Science
Laboratories at ATR, Kyoto, Japan. He is also a visiting professor at
Kobe University. He received his M. Eng, and Ph. D. degrees in
engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 2004, and 2007,
respectively. His research interests include human-robot interaction,
social touch interaction, robotics for childcare, and multiple social
robots.
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