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Humanoid Robot as a Debate Partner

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In this paper, we describe our design and development process of a humanoid robot, Pepper, as a debate partner by integrating open-source, offline Generative Pre-trained Transformer models, namely GPT-J 6B and BLOOM. We used our tool flow, which integrates open-source offline tools to animate a robotic agent to listen, speak and gesture in a human-like manner, to create a debate partner in a humanoid robot. This paper provides a technical description of the integration of GPT models into our tool flow. The first implementation was presented to a group of teachers and as a second prototype, several questioning schemes and post filtering were implemented to attain better responses from a robotic agents. The developed second prototype will be used for a pilot study with prospective users.

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This project was primarily funded by the Deutsche For-schungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy - EXC 2002/1 “Science of Intelligence” - project number 390523135

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Yun, H.S., Hübert, H., Sardogan, A., Pinkwart, N., Hafner, V.V., Lazarides, R. (2023). Humanoid Robot as a Debate Partner. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S., Salvendy, G. (eds) HCI International 2023 Posters. HCII 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1836. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36004-6_74

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