METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXPLOITING HUMAN FEEDBACK IN AN INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ASSISTANT

Patent №

US 10,366,336

Granted

2019-07-30

Filed 2012

Owner

SRI INTERNATIONAL

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13378525

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for exploiting human feedback in an intelligent automated assistant. One embodiment of a method for conducting an interaction with a human user includes inferring an intent from data entered by the human user, formulating a response in accordance with the intent, receiving feedback from a human advisor in response to at least one of the inferring and the formulating, wherein the human advisor is a person other than the human user, and adapting at least one model used in at least one of the inferring and the formulating, wherein the adapting is based on the feedback.

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Planning0.95
Machine learning0.75
Vision0.41
AI hardware0.30
Evolutionary computation0.02

Ownership

SRI INTERNATIONAL

assignment · 279890955

Assignors

TUR, GOKHAN, FRANCO, HORACIO E., MARK, WILLIAM S., WINARSKY, NORMAN D., PEINTNER, BART, WOLVERTON, MICHAEL J., YORKE-SMITH, NEIL

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