Persona-Driven AI Avatar for Autonomous Virtual Assistant Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current virtual assistant technologies are often user-centric, error-prone, and fail to provide tailored assistance for complex products and services, particularly in areas like investment, where users lack understanding of technical jargon and algorithms, and lack self-learning capabilities to adapt to changing conditions.

Innovation Solution

A persona-driven and artificially-intelligent avatar system that uses digital avatars with quantifiable traits to represent virtual assistants, allowing users to select avatars based on desirable characteristics, enabling self-learning and improved performance over time, and providing tailored assistance without requiring human interaction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If conventional virtual assistants use user-centric approaches with simple voice interfaces, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability and accuracy deteriorate due to error-prone performance and inability to provide tailored assistance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of useVSAvoidreliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The virtual assistant performs actions autonomously on behalf of the user without requiring continuous user commands or interactions. The system self-manages complex tasks such as investment portfolio management, executing trades, and adjusting strategies based on market conditions, thereby improving reliability while maintaining ease of operation through initial user setup only.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors performance metrics and user outcomes, using this feedback to refine and adjust its actions and recommendations. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enhances reliability by learning from past performance and adapting to changing conditions while keeping the interface simple for users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If virtual assistants provide comprehensive information and perform multiple actions, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases making the system difficult to understand and interact with

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveproductivityVSAvoidcomplexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system acts as an intermediary between the user and complex financial markets or technical systems. It translates user goals into sophisticated automated actions behind the scenes, handling complexity internally while presenting simple outcomes to users, thereby maintaining productivity without exposing users to system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The virtual assistant creates and manages digital representations of investment portfolios and market positions, allowing users to interact with simplified models rather than complex underlying systems. These digital copies enable productive operations while shielding users from the complexity of actual market mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Measurement precision

If virtual assistants use complex algorithms and technical jargon for accurate analysis, then measurement precision is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates as users cannot understand the technology

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveprecisionVSAvoidease of use
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system serves as an intermediary layer between complex analytical algorithms and users. It performs sophisticated precision analysis using advanced algorithms and machine learning, then translates results into simple, actionable insights and recommendations that users can easily understand and act upon without needing to comprehend the underlying complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The virtual assistant creates simplified digital representations of complex investment strategies and market analyses. Users interact with these simplified models and visualizations rather than the raw complex data and algorithms, maintaining measurement precision while dramatically improving ease of use through intuitive presentations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

4Adaptability or versatility

If virtual assistants require user commands and interactions to perform actions, then adaptability to user preferences is improved, but loss of time increases due to continuous user involvement needed

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveadaptabilityVSAvoidtime
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary setup and configuration actions based on initial user preferences, then autonomously executes subsequent tasks without requiring continuous user commands. It proactively manages investment portfolios, monitors markets, and adjusts strategies in advance, reducing time loss while maintaining adaptability through the initial preference capture and ongoing performance monitoring.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The virtual assistant autonomously performs actions on behalf of users without requiring continuous user involvement or commands. It self-manages complex tasks including portfolio adjustments, trade executions, and strategy modifications based on market conditions, thereby eliminating time loss from continuous user interaction while adapting to user preferences established during setup and refined through performance feedback.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11861704B2Persona-driven and artificially-intelligent avatar
Publication Date: 2024.01.02 GRAPHEN INC
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AI summary

A system for providing a persona-driven and artificially-intelligent avatar is disclosed. The avatar may be utilized to represent an artificially-intelligent virtual assistant that may perform actions on behalf of a user, such as actions related to personal shopping for the user. Notably, the avatar may influence artificial intelligence algorithms supporting the functionality of the virtual assistant via quantifiable traits of a persona of the avatar. In particular, the quantifiable traits of the persona of the avatar may be utilized to range bound the controlling parameters of the algorithms such that the virtual assistant represented by the avatar performs actions that conform to the ranged-bounded controlling parameters. Metrics corresponding to the performance of the virtual assistant may be tracked, and the system may modify parameters of the virtual assistant based on the metrics so as to adjust future actions performed by the virtual assistant for the user.