Viv’s developers say the technology is not here to replace humans but rather to support care staff.
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00:00 You're absolutely right my dear. It's so important to have moments where we can appreciate.
00:05 Memories with children are the best that you can have.
00:13 Because children have no inhibitions.
00:16 They just enjoy themselves and you enjoy yourself being with them.
00:22 You're absolutely right my dear.
00:24 Children have a unique ability to live in the present.
00:27 To simply enjoy themselves without the burdens of the past or the worries of the future.
00:31 Living with dementia has its challenges.
00:36 But I try to make the most of each day.
00:38 Viv is an AI character who we created with women with lived experience of dementia.
00:45 And we created her first as a sort of interactive video experience.
00:52 But when this large language model AI engines were released that opened up all sorts of possibilities.
01:01 So we now have a fully interactive character.
01:04 Music and dancing.
01:06 Oh my dear you've hit the nail on the head.
01:09 Music and dancing they truly are the language of the soul aren't they?
01:12 So she's able to function like a conversational agent that you might have come across in other areas.
01:21 But she does have this capacity to relate to the lived experience that she's learned from.
01:28 It's a good idea to have that.
01:32 You've got to get something that keeps the old brain going.
01:37 To me that's important.
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01:49 To have staff around a resident 24 hours a day is very difficult.
01:54 So this tool would be supporting the staff in actually providing them with the resources that they need for the resident and their well-being.
02:03 When we get old it's lovely to have friends and family.
02:07 And obviously technology will never replace them.
02:10 But they're not there 24/7.
02:13 So Viv is potentially around the clock presence.
02:17 If you want to have a conversation in the middle of the night with Viv you can.
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02:26 One of the big limitations with AI for helping people with dementia is a limitation we see in AI across a lot of areas.
02:34 And you can really feel that if you think do I trust AI, do I trust a robot?
02:39 Because we don't necessarily understand what is happening inside the network.
02:44 There's lots of complicated connections similar to our own brain.
02:48 And what we're trying to do is make methods to better understand that.
02:52 Music
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