Automated Multi-Persona Response Generation System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for generating dialogue and anticipating user responses in social agents are resource-intensive and time-consuming, as they require extensive human testing across various personas and contexts, making it impractical for complex interactions.

Innovation Solution

An automated system for multi-persona response generation using a computing platform with interaction profiles and context parameters, which processes input data to simulate interactions and generate responses without human administrator involvement, employing machine learning models to predict and classify participant responses.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If human testing is used to generate responses across various personas and contexts, then response accuracy and naturalness are improved, but time consumption and resource overhead increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse accuracyVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates virtual copies of human participants with different personas, demographics, and interaction styles. These synthetic participants are generated using machine learning models that replicate human response patterns, allowing automated testing without requiring actual human subjects. This copying approach maintains response accuracy while eliminating time consumption associated with human testing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-generates a diverse set of participant personas and interaction profiles before actual dialogue generation. These pre-configured virtual participants include varied demographics, personality traits, and interaction styles, enabling comprehensive testing to be performed automatically without needing to recruit and train human participants for each testing scenario.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If comprehensive human testing is conducted across all possible personas and contexts, then coverage of interaction scenarios is improved, but resource overhead and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescenario coverageVSAvoidresource overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal testing framework where a single automated system can simulate multiple human participants with diverse personas, demographics, and interaction styles. This multi-functional system replaces the need for multiple human testers, achieving comprehensive scenario coverage while reducing resource overhead. The virtual participant generation engine can create unlimited variations of user profiles without additional human resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses machine learning models to automatically generate and evaluate dialogue responses without human intervention. The automated evaluation metrics assess response quality, naturalness, and appropriateness across all personas and contexts, eliminating the need for human annotators to manually evaluate each interaction scenario. This self-service approach achieves comprehensive coverage with minimal human resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If automated systems are used to generate responses, then productivity and speed are improved, but understanding of nuanced human responses and context may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse generation speedVSAvoidcontext understanding
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs machine learning models with adjustable parameters that capture nuanced human response patterns, personality traits, and contextual understanding. By training these models on diverse dialogue data, the system learns to generate responses that reflect complex human behavior while maintaining high productivity. The models can be fine-tuned to preserve contextual understanding across different personas and scenarios.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates automated evaluation metrics that provide feedback on response quality, naturalness, and contextual appropriateness. This feedback loop allows the machine learning models to iteratively improve their understanding of nuanced human responses while maintaining high generation speed. The evaluation framework assesses multiple dimensions of response quality to ensure contextual understanding is preserved.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20230244900A1Automated Multi-Persona Response Generation
Publication Date: 2023.08.03 DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC
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AI summary

A system for performing automated multi-persona response generation includes processing hardware, a display, and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive input data describing an action and identifying a multiple interaction profiles corresponding respectively to multiple participants in the action, obtain the interaction profiles, and simulate execution of the action with respect to each of the participants. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to generate, using the interaction profiles, a respective response to the action for each of the participants to provide multiple responses. In various implementations, one or more of those multiple responses may be used to train additional artificial intelligence (AI) systems, or may be rendered to an output device in the form of one or more of a display, an audio output device, or a robot, for example.