Socially Intelligent Agents Seminar
Call for participants
As more capable social agents, from chatbots, to virtual task-automation agents, to physical robots, begin to be deployed in the real world, we start to see the various challenges of them interacting and communicating with real users. Some of these are actually shared among all different domains, but the research findings are often only circulated within their respective fields. This seminar is a unique opportunity to talk with researchers outside of your field. We are interested in the topics including but not limited to:
- Text-based agents (e.g. ChatGPT), virtual agents (e.g. Web browser agents), embodied agents (e.g. Minecraft agents), and physical robots, that interact with each other or with humans.
- The environment in which these agents operate: text world, the web, games, physical world, etc.
- The interaction between these agents and humans: collaboration, competition, shared autonomy, etc.
- The evaluation of these agents: user studies, model-based evaluation, and objective metrics.
- The applications of these agents: healthcare, education, entertainment, art creation, science discovery, law, policy, etc.
- The concerns of these agents: safety, privacy, long-term risks, etc.
What you would expect
- An overview of the papers (opens in a new tab) on the topics mentioned above.
- A discussion session where you can share the various challenges you have noticed in your research and hear from others about their challenges.
- A breakout session where you will engage in small group discussions on one of the challenges that you are interested in.
- An opportunity to contribute to an on-going survey and be a co-author of the publication.
Time and Location
Friday, May 3rd, 2024, 10:00-12:00. Location: Theatre studio, Cohen University Center, Carnegie Mellon University.
How to participate
Fill out the pre-event survey:
Optional: take a look at the papers (opens in a new tab) before the seminar and contribute by adding more papers to the repo.
Questions? What to contribute immediately?
Hao Zhu (zhuhao@cmu.edu) Xuhui Zhou (xuhuiz@andrew.cmu.edu)