Meeting minutes
Self Intro
(everybody gives their intro)
Discussion
se: different cultural groups use agents
… different communications styles with agents
ec: great question
… e.g., Chinese agents vs Australian agents
ms: trying to negotiate cultural differences
… if two agents talking with each other, e.g., one from China and another from Australia
ec: might be intentional
… natural to happen
… also should think about agents working with people
… maybe we should have some protocol to handle the situation
se: other issue about global languages
… could have shared common language dictionary
… to handle difficulty cultures and styles
ec: interesting
… e.g., English as the second language
… we could have a standard like English language
… kind of like Esperanto
ms: think so too
ec: some way to translate to a standard
… kind of like multilingual
… for example, would be useful to have an agent for warehouse coordination
ms: can we imagine shipping products, e.g., to Ontario
… you have multi-lingual environment
… like the idea somebody talking based on the context
… there are many ways to think about that
… some sort of reduced English
… translated from other languages
… e.g., from Turkish
ec: like Star Trek :)
ms: right
… universal translator
… multi-agent and multi-languages
ec: maybe agents should handle language modules on top of the structure
… very structured language agents could use
… mostly "language" is important for humans
kaz: should think about both NL and structured model
… also we should think about dialog management model to handle multiple agents and humans
ec: right
… have to have similar thing
… typical agents inside our standard field
… we could add the model why the human is raising hand
kaz: right
(Debbie jois)
ec: (gives summary so far)
… should think about difference based on language, culture, etc.
… for example, there are girls who need help, and agents can help them go home
… it's kind of like a game
ms: interesting
… customers would like to achieve some goal
ec: when we generate an LLM, should get landmarks, etc.
se: do we have to build to understand agents?
ec: very helpful rules can be built
dd: plh reminded me that there is just 10 more minutes
ec: ok. any more things?
dd: discussion around cultural issues?
ec: yeah
… had discussion about cultural differences
… mid-west vs south America, etc.
ms: impressive
ec: agents like actors from Shakespeare
… how we signal cultural differences?
se: so many disclosures
… languages we use for training
… English, e.g., American English
… need a good standard for that
dd: some format for that purpose
ec: have strong attitude for that
… what the agent is like
… not necessarily behaving right to people
ms: right
… wouldn't trust developers accurately express it
ec: possibly, we could have agents which have different purposes/attitudes
ms: yeah, could be malicious
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