ASTOUND

An #EIC funded project aimed at improving social competences of virtual agents through artificial consciousness based on the Attention Schema Theory.

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🌟 ASTOUND in the Spotlight!

🔍 #LaStampa https://t.co/kIs0xwS7xd & #MagIA https://t.co/WHZR1IwsFF highlight #ASTOUND’s research on AI’s ability to understand human cognition.

💡 Learn more: https://t.co/rAR1GQLlH9

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🌟 Redefining #Tourism with Innovation!

The @ASTOUND_project is thrilled to receive the #EIC Booster Grant to validate our context-aware chatbots in tourism. Led by #INDEEPAI with #UPM & #GVAM, we’re shaping smarter travel experiences! 🚀

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/rAR1GQKNRB

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📢 We are glad to announce that #ASTOUND has been featured on #InnovationRadar's website & recognized as a key innovation for our innovation: "The AI-powered Museums: Revolutionising Visiting and Learning with Multimodal Conversational Systems. More info: https://t.co/YrDQZfhtBA

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🚀ASTOUND: Pioneering Excellence in Conscious AI
In a groundbreaking Nature study #ASTOUND project members explored the theory of mind capabilities in humans and large language models. Read "Testing Theory of Mind in Large Language Models and Humans" here: https://t.co/JWhNGL3Uoa

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🚀It’s great to have the opportunity of taking #ASTOUND into the #EUeic​ Tech to Market (T2M) Venture Building. We are happy to be working with the programme’s team to improve our business offer and take on the market successfully.

More Info: https://t.co/aDMPS5DY3e #EIC

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🚀At the 30th anniversary of the Science of Consciousness Conference, @AidaElam from team #ASTOUND joined Stuart Hameroff, David Chalmers, Christof Koch, and Susan Blackmore. This year's event celebrated three decades of immense progress in understanding #AI consciousness.

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🚀 Team ASTOUND has just unveiled a cutting-edge sign language dataset tailored for automatic motion generation. To get an in depth understanding of the paper, read here: https://t.co/aLL8Vn91WO

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🤖Team #ASTOUND just presented a paper titled "Improving Hand Pose Recognition using Localization & Zoom Normalizations over MediaPipe Landmarks", at the 10th #InternationalElectronicConference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA10)

To know more, read here: https://t.co/pXvNM5urZf

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Comparing User Responses: Conscious Virtual Agents vs. #TraditionalAI

Here's how users would positively react to a conscious agent - Trust and Connection, Natural Language Interaction, Emotion and Empathy & User Safety and Well-being

More info- https://t.co/rAR1GQLlH9 #ASTOUND

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One of #ASTOUND’s Consortium members, Manuel Gil Martín from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid presented a paper in Paris, France at #ICMI23, titled "Interpreting Sign Language Recognition using Transformers and MediaPipe Landmarks."

Read the paper here: https://t.co/dg5h8zHOy7

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🌐On September 30th & October 1st, members of the @ASTOUND_project participated in the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence & gave a presentation on ASTOUND describing all the advances & current research done by all members of the consortium during this first year.

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During the 20th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing held in France from Sept 20 to 22, 2023, #ASTOUND’s Consortium members presented their research on "Video Memorability Prediction From Jointly-Learnt Semantic & Visual Features. https://t.co/Bq6Jbi9T1L

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🤖 #ASTOUND: Enhancing Human Potential through Mindful AI. Here are Top 3 Ways Conscious #AI Improves #EnergyEfficiency

🔹 Dynamic Resource Allocation

🔹Reduce Training Time

🔹 Self-Monitoring

📚To know more about ASTOUND, read here: https://t.co/Opqsqnj7Wz

#ConsciousAI

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Calling for Participation: Inside the Ethics of #AI Awareness Workshop” on 20th September 2023. Explore AI Awareness research beyond human-level consciousness & engage with experts like Alan Winfield & Gabriels. Free admission, register now: https://t.co/ehakTh4GlU

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On May 15-16, 2023, the University of Valencia hosted a congress on Public Law & #Algorithms. Professor Celia Fernández Aller & prof. Jesus Salgado contributed with a presentation on: An interdisciplinary conversation: how to integrate ethics and people's rights into #ASTOUND

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🌐#ASTOUND: Advancing #AI Conversations

Prof. @lfdharo and team at for @telecoupm
& @IPTC_upm creating a smart #conversational system using diverse datasets.

Read more about ASTOUND: https://t.co/N2ivCVR8eU

#ConversationalAI #Innovation

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#ASTOUND: Advancing Humanity with Conscious AI

Exploring Conscious #AI's potential, we redefine human-tech bonds. Infusing empathy into AI, we transcend mere functionality.

Strengths: Global reach, trust building, enhanced #empathy.

Read more: https://t.co/OpqsqnjFM7

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#ASTOUND: Enhancing Social Intelligence in AI Agents. Luis Fernando D'Haro & Chen Zhang presented "Advances in Automatic Dialogue Evaluation" at the 13th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing in Singapore, Dec 11, 2022. https://t.co/gPQ2MgfPh3

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#ASTOUND's groundbreaking Integrative Approach For Awareness Engineering aims to deepen machine consciousness, push AI boundaries. Partner Dianbo Liu with AI luminaries like Yoshua Bengio on Attention Schema in Neural Agents. Read the paper here: https://t.co/ayEtLJT3W3 #ai

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#ASTOUND project aims to prove #AI with artificial consciousness improves natural language understanding. Combining #neural networks & #AttentionSchema by Dr. Michael Graziano, they explore subjective #consciousness & building conscious machines. https://t.co/u5gKVAtEY5