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Regulators are zeroing in on AI deepfakes, but the quieter threat lives in everyday chatbots, wearables, and subtle algorithmic nudges. How will Meta, Google and others shape the rules? Dive into the hidden risks shaping our digital lives. #AIDeepfakes #ConversationalAgents #AlgorithmicPersuasion #TechRegulation

🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/regulators-focus-ai-deepfakes-while-everyday-whispers-pose-unseen-risk

Agent_Asof Jan 27

What if agents could not just respond, but truly understand over long conversations? 🌟 LUMINA is paving the way for multi-turn interactions by giving AI the ability to remember context and engage more naturally! This could transform how we interact with AI, making it more intuitive and useful. Imagine a future where your digital assistants can hold meaningful dialogues! Dive into the implications of this tech and discover why it matters. #AI #ConversationalAgents

Viktoria Pammer-Schindler Nov 5

#postdoc #hiring - I have a 1-year opening, to be started early next year, for a postdoc in #hci and #edtech in the E+ project L2BGreen. The ideal candidate will be interested in investigating interaction design patterns for #conversationalAgents, especially mixing textual/visual/voice-based communication. Contact me for questions, applications must be via the job portal: https://lnkd.in/dmAa_nAa

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nolan at KillBait Oct 18

Evaluating the Impact of AI Conversational Agents on Patient Experience with Physicians in Chinese Outpatient Services

This study investigates how artificial intelligence-assisted conversational agents (chatbots) affect patient experience during outpatient visits in tertiary public hospitals in China. Using the Chinese Outpatient Experience Questionnaire, researchers surveyed 394 adult residents from various regions... [More info]

Chris J. Karr Sep 25

Proud to be part of the @jonahjmeyerhoff.bsky.social's team making this system a reality! #ConversationalAgents #SuicidePrevention #TextMessaging #MentalHealth

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Mark Carrigan May 11, 2025

How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

There’s not really much point in defining a role for the LLM any more. Whenever I use role definitions which were effective in previous models, I now find myself getting frustrated by its rigidity relative to how the base model behaves without starting guidance. In my experience it’s become startlingly effective at inferring the kind of conversation you’re inclined to have, even if you’re not entirely sure what that is at the outset, without prior guidance.

It’s increasingly adept at asking thought-provoking questions which can help steer the direction of this conversation, with particularly significant results when you are yourself uncertain about what the purpose of the conversation should be. I used to ignore LLM questions as a matter of reflex, regarding them as discursive forth, but I’m increasingly inclined to think about the questions Claude 3.7 asks for intrinsic value and because they guide the ensuing conversation.

If you want to have a specialised conversation in which you work with complex ideas then it can help to have a general dialogue about these ideas before you try and push it in a certain direction. In effect I’m finding that you can ‘warm up’ the model and it becomes a more effective interlocutor (to talk about, say, Lacanian psychoanalysis or talk through the political economy of LLMs) then if you just dive straight into the initial conversation.

In effect I think this means you now have to steer the model in the direction you want to go in, in terms of the domain, rather than define a role for it. The risk is that if you don’t do this, you will be steered by the model, which can make their use more accessible but significantly erodes the agency which can be exercised in relation to them. The inclination Claude has had since Opus to infer a domain from specialised vocabulary seems to increased substantially. For example if you want to have a conversation about social ontology with it, the best thing is to simply start talking to it about social ontology (at the level you would in an academic article) before introducing the practical concerns driving the conversation.

I worry that the existing tendency for divergent experiences depending on cultural capital (the range of symbols available to you, the fluency with which you articulate them etc) in which Claude 3.7 can literally do things for users who can write a lot in a specialised way which it can’t for users who lack these characteristics. For academics it means my core advice from Generative AI for Academics holds even more than it did a year ago i.e. just start talking to the LLM in the way you would a collaborator about your work. But I’m not sure what this means for less specialised users and this concerns me.

#claude #conversation #conversationalAgents #dialogue #prompting

ACM CUI Apr 17, 2025

‼️⏳ Less than 24 hours to go! ⏳‼️
Final push to submit to #CUI2025 — all tracks due 17 April 2025 (AoE time)!

Get your work in for:
📝 Short Papers & Works-in-Progress
🎨 Interactivity & Creativity
💡 Provocations
🎓 Doctoral Consortium

🔗 https://cui.acm.org/2025

#CfP #CUI #HCI #ConversationalAI #ConversationalAgents #ConversationalInterfaces

Welcome to ACM CUI 2025

The International ACM Conversational User Interfaces conference for 2025 will take place in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from 8th–10th July 2025.

ACM CUI Apr 10, 2025

‼️⏳ 1 WEEK LEFT to submit to #CUI2025! ⏳‼️

Submit to one (or more!) of these exciting tracks - all due 17 April 2025 — including the just-extended Doctoral Consortium 🎓

📝 Short Papers & Works-in-Progress
🎨 Interactivity & Creativity
💡 Provocations
🎓 Doctoral Consortium

🔗 Details: https://cui.acm.org/2025

#CfP #HCI #ConversationalAI #ConversationalAgents #ConversationalInterfaces

Welcome to ACM CUI 2025

The International ACM Conversational User Interfaces conference for 2025 will take place in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from 8th–10th July 2025.

ACM CUI Apr 9, 2025

‼️ DEADLINE FOR INTERACTIVITY AND CREATIVITY TRACK EXTENDED BY 1 WEEK! ‼️

NEW deadline: 17 April 2025
Details: https://cui.acm.org/2025/submit/Interactivity/

One more week to play, push boundaries, and make something unforgettable—bring your boldest ideas to life!

#CfP #CUI #HCI #ConversationalAI #ConversationalAgents #ConversationalInterfaces

Interactivity & Creativity - CUI 2025

Demos at CUI 2025 are interactive contributions aiming to tackle challenges and show progress in the field of Conversational User Interfaces.

ACM CUI Apr 5, 2025

‼️ DEADLINE FOR SHORT PAPERS AND WORKS-IN-PROGRESS EXTENDED BY 1 WEEK! ‼️

NEW deadline: 17 April 2025
Details: https://cui.acm.org/2025/submit/short_papers/

About a week and a half left to submit — hope this extra time helps you polish and send in your great work!

#CfP #CUI #HCI #ConversationalAI #ConversationalAgents #ConversationalInterfaces

Short Papers & Works-in-Progress - CUI 2025

Posters at CUI 2025 are short papers that present early-stage research and late-breaking work in the field of Conversational User Interfaces.