This year, open-domain conversational AI systems have finally reached the general public: they are widely accessible, excel w.r.t. the naturalness and fluency of their generated output, and provide helpful responses for many of the users’ requests. However, there are still many open challenges — in particular, relating to ethical aspects of their design: for instance, conversational AI systems are prone to encode and amplify unfair stereotypes and are exclusive to many speakers identifying as members of underrepresented cultural and subcultural groups. In this talk, I will present some of these challenges and discuss potential solutions towards responsible AI-based future communication.
You can find all the details and (eventually) the material at the Indico agenda: https://indico.desy.de/event/38994/