Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

What – receive commands and verbally interact (hold a conversation) with children, which must include knock-knock jokes

We keep the two kinds of functions: receive commands from – let's call me the robot controller, to make this more generic. The other function is to have a conversation with the children, including telling knock-knock jokes. We'll define conversation further on in our breakdown, so we'll be setting some limits on that function, but to introduce the topic we will be spending an entire chapter on, we are referring to "small talk" or phatic conversation. Klaus Schneider in his PhD thesis ,"Small Talk: Analyzing Phatic Discourse", compared these short conversations we all have to moves in a game – which means we can model them ...