Teaching virtual humans the secret of reading between the lines | Justine Cassell
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2017-02-14

As people get to know each other, they tend to become less polite – and that increases their rapport, provided impoliteness is followed, within one-thirtieth of a second, by a smile. That’s one of the insights from the “social embodied agents” being studied by Justine Cassell at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. These virtual humans are not only improving the development of AI, but also our understanding of what it means to be a real human.

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