Conference section "More Than Chatbots: Functions, Limits of Impact, and Applicability Issues of Conversational AI"

We invite to register participants and listeners for the conference section "More Than Chatbots: Functions, Limits of Impact, and Applicability Issues of Conversational AI" of the 83rd International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia.

The development and proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) conversational tools has already provided significant opportunities to assess their effectiveness and limitations, but the debate about their meaning and impact on human society, as well as their practical validity and suitability for humans, continues. AI conversational tools can be evaluated both as tools whose functions and meaning exceed the boundaries of conversation, and thus they are more than simply conversational tools, and also as, from the user's perspective, limited instruments that cannot provide the humanness of conversation, in a broad sense, the user needs.

The participants of the conference section are invited to address these different considerations, looking at the opportunities and problems created by AI conversational tools on a theoretical and practical level from the point of view of analysis and application of AI conversational tools, as well as outlining possible improvements and solutions.

Date: 19 March 2025, 13:00–16:00

Place: The innovation center of the University of Latvia, LUMIC, Kalpaka boulevard 4, 2nd floor

Register for the conference section

Registration for participants is open until 9 February. 

Registration for listeners is open until 18 March.

Programme will be published on 17 February.

The conference section "More Than Chatbots: Functions, Limits of Impact, and Applicability Issues of Conversational AI" of the 83rd International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia is organised by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, UL within the project "Humanizing chatbots: conversation-based solutions for chatbot user experience enhancement" (No. lzp-2021/1-0151), funded by Latvian Council of Science Fundamental and Applied Research programme.