Tony Belpaeme, Professor at Ghent University, introduced VALAWAI concepts in the 1st International Symposium on Humans at the Centre of HRI, Grenoble, France.
While interactive systems and specifically Human-Robot Interaction have been studied for over 20 years, we do not yet see autonomous systems that can support open-ended social interaction. Instead, we have been taking shortcuts which for constrained applications seem to work well. However, the dream -of course- is to build true autonomous HRI rivalling human-to-human interaction. This talk looks into what would be needed for that and speculates if recent advances in data-driven AI can bring us there.
