Artificial Friends in Japan

University of Wolverhampton, Being Human Fest

Join us for a fascinating online discussion of how AI is likely to change our understanding of being human.

Join the UN/REAL team including Professor Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes) and Jerrine Tan (City University Hong Kong) for a discussion of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and its lessons for our relationship with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the ongoing development of artificial friends. How should we think about our interactions with robots or chatbots - can a friendship blossom between humans and technology when they intensively converse with one another? By taking a close look at Ishiguro’s Klara, we’ll talk about the benefits and issues of conversational (chat)bots for wellbeing purposes, but will also ask how sincere humans will be in becoming companions of our artificial friends. Meet our UN/REAL bot and test its humanity. The designer Kota Nezu will present his LOVOT robot and talk us through the current state of artificial friend design and research – where does he think we’ll be in ten years time?This event takes place in Japan between 7-8:10pm Japan Standard time (JST). You can join the live stream at 10am GMT via this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89720568546. You can also watch the recording on Wolverhampton's School of Humanities YouTube channel in the near future.

This event is part of the Being Human festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 10–19 November 2022. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.

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