From Pixels to Personas: Investigating and Modeling Self-Anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Dialogues (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | a recent study shows that robots display human-like characteristics in dialogues . this anthropomorphism raises concerns about the accuracy of AI and its capabilities . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset to analyze self-anthropomorphic and non-self-anthropophilic responses in robots . they propose to combine these two types of responses to create a new category of bot responses . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach preserves the original dialogues from existing corpora and enhances them with paired responses: self-anthropomorphic and non-self-anthropophilic for each original bot response. |
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