GPT Models Meet Robotic Applications: Co-Speech Gesturing Chat System
Authors: name: Naoki Wake; name: Atsushi Kanehira; name: Kazuhiro Sasabuchi; name: Jun Takamatsu; name: Katsushi Ikeuchi
Published: 2023-05-10 10:14:16

Abstract: This technical paper introduces a chatting robot system that utilizes recent
advancements in large-scale language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and ChatGPT.
The system is integrated with a co-speech gesture generation system, which
selects appropriate gestures based on the conceptual meaning of speech. Our
motivation is to explore ways of utilizing the recent progress in LLMs for
practical robotic applications, which benefits the development of both chatbots
and LLMs. Specifically, it enables the development of highly responsive chatbot
systems by leveraging LLMs and adds visual effects to the user interface of
LLMs as an additional value. The source code for the system is available on
GitHub for our in-house robot
(https://github.com/microsoft/LabanotationSuite/tree/master/MSRAbotChatSimulation)
and GitHub for Toyota HSR
(https://github.com/microsoft/GPT-Enabled-HSR-CoSpeechGestures).