The pandemic has marked a distinct turning point for the app, originally launched in 2015 by San Francisco start-up Luka to make restaurant recommendations. Healthcare provider Providence was the first to make the Coronavirus Self-Checker chatbot available, via its website. The app asks a number of questions based on CDC guidelines and, depending on the […]
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2 Empathetic Computing Content Chatbot basics New Skills Responses A response is selected by randomly sampling a candidate from those with higher ranking scores than a pre-set threshold. Examples of inconsistent responses generated using a seq2seq model (S2S-Bot) that is not grounded in persona (Li et al. 2016b). Examples of consistent and humorous responses generated using […]