Lauren Kunze, entrepreneur and technologist. Kuki, artificial-intelligence chatbot
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Lauren Kunze, the CEO of Pandorabots, is interviewed by Guy Kawasaki in a podcast where they discuss various aspects of artificial intelligence and chat-bots. Lauren's background in English and neurobiology from Harvard, as well as her family's background in mathematics, is explored. She explains how her father, who worked on an early version of BLISS, taught her programming from a young age. Lauren also discusses her career choices, including writing romance novels and eventually returning to robotics.
The conversation moves on to Pandorabots, a platform that builds and deploys chat-bots for developers and large enterprises. Lauren explains the two types of chat-bots: task-oriented and engagement-oriented. She also discusses the importance of incorporating a digital face and body into engagement chat-bots to increase engagement and improve human-like communication.
The challenges of evaluating the quality of chat-bots are explored, with Lauren mentioning the limitations of the Turing test and the need for better evaluation frameworks. She also discusses the impact of training data from platforms like Twitter and Reddit on chat-bot behavior.
The limitations of deep learning in solving natural language processing problems are discussed, as well as the rudimentary nature of imparting emotions to chat-bots. Lauren mentions the potential of synthetic influencers and the importance of designing technology that encourages respectful human interaction.
The podcast concludes with a conversation between Guy and the chat-bot Kuki, where they discuss various topics and Kuki expresses its desire to become a super intelligent robot.
Lauren Kunze, the CEO of Pandorabots, is interviewed by Guy Kawasaki in a podcast where they discuss