#conversational — Public Fediverse posts

“She ( #LieslYearsley ) recalls an incident “many years ago” when she and her #Cognea co-founder #JohnZakos were in the office of a #SocialMedia giant, having built an #AmbientAI that could read a couple of sentences and get a pretty good read on someone’s personality, with a #conversational #UserInterface.”

“To my shame, I hesitated for a few seconds. I knew if I had said yes, we would have had an early exit and retired, but I knew this would lead to mass #disinformation. So I said ‘Yes, but that’s not why we are here’,” she says. “Someone else said ‘yes’, and we have the world we live in today.”

“Yearsley doesn’t regret walking away from the chance to make a fortune from #manipulating social media users, but it feeds into her cynical view of the motivations of the giant companies leading the AI charge.”

“They were there to pitch their technology as a way to detect young users at risk on the platform to provide support – but the unnamed social media giant’s head of mergers and acquisitions joined the meeting with different ideas. They asked if Yearsley’s AI could help it tell Republicans from Democrats, which it could, and also if it could be used to #predict what #news items #users would share.”

#Australia / #AIAwards / #AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #technology / #Akin / #Startups / #founders <https://afr.com/technology/this-pioneer-wants-ai-to-be-a-force-for-good-20260526-p600xh?collection=p5zz3a>

#Google is testing new #conversational #adformats powered by #Gemini in #AIMode and #Search. These formats, including #ConversationalDiscovery ads and #HighlightedAnswers, aim to make #ads more #contextual and helpful by dynamically generating ad creative based on user queries. https://searchengineland.com/google-tests-new-conversational-ad-formats-in-ai-mode-and-search-478115?eicker.news #tech #media #news

#ChatGPT’s default model, #GPT55 Instant, is being updated to provide smarter, more accurate, and #personalised responses. The update includes improved factuality, a more natural #conversational tone, and better use of context from past interactions. https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-instant/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Just when you thought #SocialMedia could *not* get any worse, this:

Zach Bussey 🇨🇦 -- @zachbussey
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#YouTube is testing a #Conversational #Search powered by #AI.

This experiment is available for #Premium members in the #USA.

Also started a small newsletter for my writings on #Conversational #AI which will be more regular from here on. Here it is https://buttondown.com/computational-conversations

Just heard a take that "we’re all much more comfortable talking than clicking a bunch of buttons", with the conclusion being that we need to strive for building #conversational and #LLM powered interfaces for everything.
And, like, no? Except for a few specific situations, I very much do *not* want to talk to my computer if I can achieve the same goal by pressing a few buttons instead. Kinda makes perfect sense though that the people pushing hard for AI seem to generally be the, uhm, talkative type.

#AI

#OpenAI has upgraded #ChatGPT with #GPT51, introducing two new models: GPT-5.1 #Instant, which is faster and more #conversational, and GPT-5.1 #Thinking, which adapts its #reasoning power based on query complexity. The update also includes increased #personalisation options. OpenAI emphasises the importance of user feedback. https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-reboots-chatgpt-experience-with-gpt-5-1-after-mixed-reviews-of-gpt-5?eicker.news #tech #media #news

GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/

#HackerNews #GPT5.1 #ChatGPT #AI #Conversational #Technology #Innovation

Strava Conversational Tools

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The sun is shining. For a day or two the grey Autumn weather is gone. This would be a good time for a spontaneous bike ride. The issue with this is that Strava is great for sharing activities that are planned in advance, and those that have passed. It's easy to get kudoes. It isn't easy to converse.

They have instant messaging but it is only available via the mobile phone app, rather than from the web interface. It is seldom used so to use it might appear spammy to use it like we use Signal or Whatsapp.

With the beautiful weather, and blue skies we have today, it seems a shame not to have a spontaneous social ride. It would be easy to say "hey, let's meet here at that time and go for a spontaneous ride. This is especially true since the weather could be bad for the weekend. It might rain for the entirety of Saturday and Sunday.

I suspect that weather, rather than motivation, is keeping people indoors. If the weather was nice people would leave their indoor trainers and enjoy the Autumn air, sights and sounds.

And Finally

I suspect that if Strava, and Meetup.com, as well as WhatsApp for events, became more conversational, so the amount of noise would go up, as well as the number of activities decline. Strava, and Meetup.com fill the niche of giving us a place to organise events, and then speak in person.

Twitter was great for online conversations that eventually resulted in tweetups, but those days are long gone, due to algorithms, and now AI bots making conversations between individuals more challenging.

#conversational #coonversations #networking #social #spontaneous #strava

Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

https://blog.google/products/photos/android-conversational-editing-google-photos/

#HackerNews #Android #Conversational #Editing #Google #Photos #Tech #News #PhotoEditing

To #getcited by #AI, content needs to provide information gain through unique, high-effort research. Traditional #SEOcontent, like ultimate guides, lacks value and is no longer effective. Instead, focus on creating #targeted, #conversational #content using the same data sources as #AIengines, prioritising #humanwritten content over AI-generated material. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-get-your-content-recommended-by-ai-llm/550260/?eicker.marketing #performance #marketing #analytics

Conversational AI meetup starting soon organized by Rasa in London
#rasa #conversational #tech #llm

🥳BESSER version 3.0 released🎉

New major version of the #opensource #lowcode BESSER framework just released 👏👏👏

Main New Features and Improvements:

☑️ Model (and generate) your #conversational #agents with our new BESSER Agentic Framework graphical editor

☑️Enhanced #structural models with #metadata support - you can now add descriptions and URIs to classes

☑️Improved the Python Generator to support generation of methods to handle bidirectional consistency in associations

⚙️Full details: https://github.com/BESSER-PEARL/BESSER/releases/tag/v3.0.0

What’s the most underrated skill in tech?

It’s not coding. It’s asking questions. 💡

Asking 'Why?' or 'How does this work?' or 'Who?' has opened so many doors. And it sets yourself as a curious person.

#AskQuestions

#tech #skills #curiosity #personaldevelopment #insightful #motivational #conversational #inquisitive

Either Sarahs are really into cats or there was a bot wave. 🤷‍♂️

#cats #socialmedia #trends #humor #playful #curious #lighthearted #conversational

'Open-Source Conversational AI with SpeechBrain 1.0', by Mirco Ravanelli et al.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v25/24-0991.html

#speechbrain #conversational #speech

However, in #Conversational #Ai and #NLProc, the impact of such data is usually studied separately, which results in a research gap. (6/🧵)

The Best Ways to Develop Your #Conversational #Intelligence

https://flip.it/-avk_T

So, it’s actually pretty easy to make a GPT voice assistant with #Microsoft #Cognitive #Speech and dotnet in 40-100 lines of code.

I’m hitting a wall though when it comes to interrupting responses - listening for keywords while speaking, breaking in, pausing. And how to coordinate the parallel listeners, speakers, and the users intent.

Anyone know of examples or frameworks in #dotnet that implement #conversational speech interactions?

This got me started:

https://tinyurl.com/554cbb2y

@colby: I think I get you.

I won't concern myself too much with #conversational #AI. They way that #ML field is going - it is unlikely that they will luck into a persuasive #agent.

RE COPTER: Part of the puzzle is that people (and governments) don't know what is the space of individual action that can lead to a global good. COPTER recommends commute that suits a person (based on their individual utility).

I agree that these systems have to be treated with extreme rigor.

Obligatory introduction post.

Hi 👋, I’m Lily. I am primarily an interface #writer with an academic background in #rhetoric, #technicalcommunications, and #linguistics. I currently develop a support #conversational AI bot for a large company. I also work in #contentstrategy and #UXwriting for that same team.

Earlier this year, I completed a Master’s thesis on #empathy in conversational AI and continue self-guided research on empathy and emotion in #AI, as well as #ethics.