SAM</violence> hackathon 2016

http://www.hack-against-violence.org/

@ SF /devbootcamp

1. </VIOLENCE>2. INCLUSION 3. VOICEHow do we address violence, whether social / police / criminal / self-directed?

How do we work towards social inclusion and giving people a voice?

“The true expression of non-violence is compassion

Dalai Lama

What if the next generation of AI bots were not only intelligent… but compassionate rather than cold, sympathetic and empathetic? Could you have an intelligent counselor at your fingertips wherever and whenever you want? Someone who is programmed to be non-judgmental and always present.

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It’s not always easy or cost-effective to ask for help…

Here’s a demo of a Alexa-powered conversational bot (VIDEO TODO)

SAM

➤ Meet SAM: a Sympathetic AI Messenger Bot!Rather than following a script or deterministic decision treelike Eliza (1966), SAM tries to infer the emotional toneof your message, using this to either engage in small talk orto provide wisdom of the sages / ages.Here we talk to SAM about our day:

WATCH / FACEBOOK MESSENGER INTEGRATION!

CODE

➤ Built Facebook messenger API bot in Ruby (Sinatra) ➤ API.ai integration for cloud-based machine learning

➤ Emotional states: welcoming, angry, lonely, hopeless, tired, neutral, positive* (*need work here :)

➤ Alexa interface via nodeJS

➤ Twitter API => quotes for Dalai Lama corpus

ARCHITECTURE

SAM

#THX

@BerniceChuaLeslie Wu @lwu

Izzy Matos @everysum1

Matt Quinn @808sNLineBreaks

github.com/lwu/SAMi-compassion-bot