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Workshop: Neural Conversational AI Workshop - What’s left to TEACH (Trustworthy, Enhanced, Adaptable, Capable and Human-centric) chatbots?

Invited Talk: Safer Generative ConvAI by Pascale Fung

Pascale FUNG

2023 Keynote Talk
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Workshop: Neural Conversational AI Workshop - What’s left to TEACH (Trustworthy, Enhanced, Adaptable, Capable and Human-centric) chatbots?

Abstract

Generative models for Conversational AI are less than a decade old, but they hold great promise for human-machine interactions. Machine responses based on generative models can seem quite fluent and human-like, empathetic and funny, knowledgeable and professional. However, behind the confident voice of generative ConvAI systems, they can also be hallucinating misinformation, giving biased and harmful views, and are still not "safe" enough for many real life applications. The expressive power of generative ConvAI models and their undesirable behaviors are two sides of the same coin. How can we harness the fluency, diversity, engagingness of generative ConvAI models while mitigating the downside? In this talk, I will present some of our recent work in making generative ConvAI safer via mitigating hallucinations, misinformation, and toxicity.

Speaker

Pascale FUNG

Pascale Fung’s long term research background is in multimodal interactive systems including audio, speech, text and video. She started research on world modeling after studying the limitation of generative models due to hallucinations. She is the Co-founder and Chief Research & Innovation Officer at AMI Labs. She was previously the Senior Director of AI Research at Meta-FAIR, leading research on embodied AI agents. She is also a Chair Professor of ECE at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). She is a Fellow of the ACL, AAAI, IEEE, and ISCA for her significant contribution to human-machine interactions.

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