How do we build AI bots that are not just cold and calculating but sympathetic, empathetic and compassionate in their care? We present SAM a FB Messenger Bot trained using machine learning on compassionate texts from the Dalai Lama.

1. SAM
</violence> hackathon 2016
http://www.hack-against-violence.org/
@ SF /devbootcamp

2. 1. </VIOLENCE>
2. INCLUSION
3. VOICE
How do we address violence, whether social / police / criminal / self-directed?
How do we work towards social inclusion and giving people a voice?

3. “The true expression of non-
violence is compassion
Dalai Lama

4. What if the next generation of AI bots were not only intelligent…
but compassionate rather than cold,
sympathetic and empathetic?
Could you have an intelligent counselor at your fingertips wherever
and whenever you want? Someone who is programmed to be
non-judgmental and always present.

5. http://24cligs21ed2i6iab1fxpro1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/struggling-online.png
It’s not always easy or cost-effective to ask for help…

6. Here’s a demo of a Alexa-powered conversational bot (VIDEO TODO)

7. SAM
➤ Meet SAM: a Sympathetic AI Messenger Bot!
Rather than following a script or deterministic decision tree
like Eliza (1966), SAM tries to infer the emotional tone
of your message, using this to either engage in small talk or
to provide wisdom of the sages / ages.
Here we talk to SAM about our day:

11. WATCH / FACEBOOK MESSENGER INTEGRATION!

12. CODE
➤ Built Facebook messenger API bot in Ruby (Sinatra)
➤ API.ai integration for cloud-based machine learning
➤ Emotional states: welcoming, angry, lonely,
hopeless, tired, neutral, positive* (*need work here :)
➤ Alexa interface via nodeJS
➤ Twitter API => quotes for Dalai Lama corpus

13. ARCHITECTURE
SAM

14. #THX
@BerniceChua
Leslie Wu
@lwu
Izzy Matos
@everysum1
Matt Quinn
@808sNLineBreaks
github.com/lwu/SAMi-compassion-bot