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Flirting Chatbots


From WorldBestChatBot.com


In December 2014 New York Magazine published an article by Melissa Dahl with the provocative title “Computers are Better at Flirting than We Are”. Dahl’s article summarizes some work by three Stanford University researchers in which they developed a computer program that is “pretty good” at picking up on flirtatious behaviour by humans. One of the Stanford trio, Dan Jurafsky, designed a flirtation-detection system based on established machine learning techniques. The learning system was trained on the transcripts of 1,100 speed dates, each lasting 4 minutes.

The Stanford researchers concluded their detailed report on their work by describing their system as being

“. . . able to predict flirtation intention better than humans can, despite humans having access to vastly richer information (visual features, gesture, etc.). This system facilitates the analysis of human perception and human interaction and provides a framework for understanding why humans perform so poorly on intention prediction”


In order for a computer program to be able to flirt successfully with a human conversation partner it is not only necessary for the software to be able to detect flirtatious behaviour by the human. It must also be able to engage in flirtatious conversation itself. We plan to develop two flirtatious versions of our chatbot, one with a male persona and the other a female persona. At the same time we will be putting Do-Much-More through an extensive overhaul, with a regime of upgrades that will result in a quantum leap in conversational performance.

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