Socially Aware Dialogue

Socially aware dialogue systems aim to create conversational AI that understands and adheres to social norms, fostering respectful and appropriate interactions. Current research focuses on developing models that can identify and address norm violations, often leveraging large language models and retrieval-augmented generation techniques to learn from large datasets of dialogues, including synthetically generated data to augment limited real-world examples. This field is crucial for building ethical and beneficial AI assistants, improving cross-cultural communication, and advancing our understanding of human-computer interaction.