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Alex huh start a pixie hi this is an Alexa prize social buzz tell me something interesting a sheep a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot-air balloon here in this classroom at Princeton University a small group of grad students get together every week to work on a social bot called pixie that runs on Amazon's Alexa voice assistant their work is part of the Alexa prize a college competition Amazon started to encourage the development of chattier and more human-like ai's so the idea is to try and create a chat box that can talk to someone making a conversation for about 20 minutes you have to cater to a wide variety of opinions and variety of interests and it's fun to see what people want from this and where people take these colorization creating a social bat that can carry on a long conversation is one of the biggest unsolved problems in AI and requires teaching a robot all about our world that's why pixie still gets a lot of things wrong where do we leave where do we live interest me too where do you live I think people find it pretty easy to start imagining these as people at the same time there's a kind of distance that comes from knowing you're not actually talking to a real person that allows you to say things you wouldn't say in real life the Princeton team envisions creating social BOTS that could someday be used for customer service or be companions for the elderly the singasong Daisy Daisy give me your answer do I am NOT crazy all for the love of you