Let Embodiment AI be your buddy to manage emotions and nurture relationship

The way AI is progressing, it is not far when Embodied AI can personify various personas physically and emotionally. They can be new buddies for humans who can learn and adjust with a specific person in an autonomous manner. With advancements in Generative AI technology, embodied AI is believed to be the key to achieving the next leap in AI capability.

Though there can be multiple industry use cases for Embodied AI, however, one that came very interestingly to my mind is the non-intrusive matchmaker. Fundamentally, relations depend on how we see each other and what similarity or familiarity we must connect in an emotionally balanced manner irrespective of a situation. The situation can vary from happy to sad to joyous, to buoyance, to elated, to blue, stressed, and many others. Mostly all great literature teaches us to stay calm, and composed and to respond not to react in any situation. In today's world, mostly relationships are very fragile, and their existence is dependent on our aura to manage the nitty gritty involved in sustaining the relationship.

In the larger part of India, kundili matching (astrology) is one of the important aspects at least at the start of a relationship to understand whether the relationship will stay good or bad in their journey. However, various other factors also decide the sustenance of a relationship such as an arranged marriage or a love marriage or in a living relationship but many a time the relationship does not stick as per expectations or assumptions behind the stated foundation of them.

My idea is not only to truly give meaning to a saying that relationships are made in heaven but also to keep them running on this earth.

So, the idea evolves like this, we should have the embodied AI avatar available for different personas, and the personas are trained on various data sets publicly available or with personal data set based on consent or with synthetically generated data sets based on public and privileged information available. The different scenarios can be generated with the information available to train the avatars on whom they react and respond to various situations, this can include all the range of scenarios (good, bad, and ugly) so that at least 60-70% of situation which can happen in a relationship now or in future looking at their current profile with some deep learning modeling algorithms are covered. Once the avatars are fully trained, we can make them available on reliable and trusted match-making platforms. The synthetic future data generation capability must be based on currently available information and create the knowledge graph with a current profile to other psychological known/unknown factors from the proven research and studies. Both large language models and vision language models will be used in training the avatar and creating the knowledge graphs as needed.

The idea is to have a white-label platform where people can connect with people’s avatars. When I say virtual mean that you are interacting in a physical model to another person virtually likewise the other person. The Knowledge graph will be established and maintained with each interaction and can help to improve upon the accuracy of humanoid AI to various situations in real-time. The humanoid also could learn and adjust their reaction and response, based on various interactions in a physical and virtual avatar.  There will be well-defined control and guardrails to manage all such interactions to keep the crux of the idea of relationship building and nurturing with strong human values and principles.

I have conceived the way this will work in different scenarios as below:

Scenario 1: Suppose I met someone and got hooked a bit, but I have my scars to validate before I can further get myself emotionally involved. So, what I will do, I will see the available avatar of the other person or the closed matching person and will get into a virtual relationship with some timeframe, this will help me not only to largely know the other person but also will help me to validate all my scars effectively without hurting the other person’s sentiment. It will help in conscious life-making decisions which can lead to a happy or an unhappy life.

Scenario 2: Two people get into relationships, and they have their thoughts and identity which they want to validate before they further get into relationships emotionally. So, here you have avatars available of both the interested parties, both of you have opportunities to get along with each other virtual avatar and stay in that relationship for some time frame before making any decision making, so it will give you the power to respect each other identity mutually and come to a common ground of relationship building.

Scenario 3: The parents have identified some suitable matches now they want to leverage the platform to understand the values and behaviors as per their expectations before they further go on discussion with each other parents.

Scenario 4: Two people are in a relationship for some time and see some patterns that may hamper the relationship in the future, so, in this case, they can get engaged to an avatar model who is trained on how you are going to react and respond to all possible future scenarios with your current profile and with synthetic future data generation capability based on current profile and other psychological known/unknown factors from the proven research and studies. This will give an opportunity to break the relationship consciously and get into a fresh start without hurting each other.

Scenario 5: Living a life of your condition, having a lifelong virtual partner, and staying joyous in all the scenarios you learn by him and the other one learning by you in a continuous manner to keep and nurture the bonding without any emotional tangle.

Like this, there can be “n” number of scenarios where this model will give a chance to get engaged in virtual mode and make a conscious decision before getting into a mental breakdown depending upon the relationship you are starting or where you are in your current relationship. One of the bottlenecks to this idea is the availability of data sets to train embodied AI. However, as the way Open-X embodiment AI is progressing, the day is not far when the required datasets will be available in a Responsible AI way.

The idea looks technically feasible and can be implemented with some solid Responsible AI Guidelines in place; however, the humans are humans, and irrespective of the extent of training, you cannot predict the outcome all the time, there will be imperfections that need to be seen again with human intelligence and God-given emotions.

Please do let me know how you like this idea and what other factors we need to consider in making humanoid emotions in a way human emotions are to build and nurture relationships.