On February 22th, 2023 we had our third meeting to discuss and do brainstorming on the design of the AST architecture, and how to create a new dataset that can be used for training and deploying the proof of concept of our conscious chatbot. The total number of attendees was 20 coming from all the partners in the project. The meeting started at 13:00 and finished at 17:00.

The agenda started with some administrative topics presented by Dr. Giorgos Kontaxakis (UPM) and reminders about the next deliverables and milestones for the project. After this, Dr. Fernando Fernández (UPM) presented an interesting proposal about the dataset creation for training the chatbot, which received good comments from the attendees.

Then, some of the initial experiments from Dr. Cristina Becchio (UKE) for evaluating the consciousness of the chatbot were presented. These initial experiments are relevant since they provide some light on the limitations of current chatbots and what it can be done from the project.

Starting at 3:40 pm, Dr. Aïda Elamrani (ENS) provided an update about the constitution of the Ethics Advisory Board. Finally, Dr. Luis Fernando D’Haro (UPM) presented a more detailed plan for the modules and architecture of the chatbot based on the proposed AST implementation presented in January by Dr. Guido Manzi (IAI).

Finally, the consortium established the creation of 2 topic groups on Ethics and Chatbot to promote a more dynamic interchange of information and discussion, focused on the tasks that are more relevant for the following months of the project.

The next meeting will be held in March 28th, 2023 with the idea of describing progresses in the definition of the AST, the dataset creation, and ethical aspects. Stay tuned for next news about our project.