Alfie: An Interactive Robot with a Moral Compass
This addresses the problem of creating socially interactive robots with moral reasoning capabilities for users, but it is incremental as it builds on existing language models and robot platforms.
The authors introduced Alfie, an interactive robot that answers moral questions and learns from user feedback when disagreements arise, using state-of-the-art language models like Universal Sentence Encoder and BERT.
This work introduces Alfie, an interactive robot that is capable of answering moral (deontological) questions of a user. The interaction of Alfie is designed in a way in which the user can offer an alternative answer when the user disagrees with the given answer so that Alfie can learn from its interactions. Alfie's answers are based on a sentence embedding model that uses state-of-the-art language models, e.g. Universal Sentence Encoder and BERT. Alfie is implemented on a Furhat Robot, which provides a customizable user interface to design a social robot.