DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 30 -- North Carolina State University issued the following press release:
For Immediate Release
Qiao (Georgie) Jin[emailprotected]
Xiaoran Yang[emailprotected]
Matt Shipman[emailprotected]
When a conversational AI character in an immersive environment says something false, how should the system alert the user? Researchers have now explored this question in a proof-of-concept study, which tested three techniques for alerting users to hallucinated statements from "embodied" AI agents in virtual reality (VR) systems.
While all three techniques improved the ability of users to identify untrue statements, they differed in how users experienced and interpreted the warnings. The findings can inform developers' decisions ab...