Dasha AI developers have added a new feature to their robot: screening employees for coronavirus symptoms. Every morning, the voice robot makes phone calls to the company employees and assesses not only their condition, but also whether they are at risk.
A team of University graduates has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature: Dasha provides automated morning calls to employees to detect the presence of COVID-19 symptoms and assess whether a person is at risk or may come to work during a period of self-isolation. The video shows the new feature in action. After that, all the collected information and recommendations from Dasha are transmitted to the HR Department so that they can remotely monitor the health of their employees.
According to the developers, the new function of the voice robot may be relevant in areas where people continue to work during self-isolation: healthcare, insurance, banking and retail. The algorithm is based on the WHO recommended protection principles. "We would like company owners to treat the health of their employees with great respect and eliminate the risks for each of them. After all, our technology works for the benefit of society, because it serves this purpose," said Vladislav Chernyshov, Dasha AI CEO and a graduate of Automation and Computer Engineering Faculty, NSTU NETI.
"People don't like talking to robots on the phone. One of the main tasks was to teach the robot to follow and respond to cues. We gave it a human voice, so that the interlocutor does not feel that the conversationof is futile. This has become our main advantage over our competitors. This is the first robot that sounds like a real person, which is reflected in the conversion rate and the attitude of the interlocutor. Nearly all people who communicated with the voice robot did not understand that they were talking to the program," says Ilya Stupakov, Dasha AI CTO and Associate Professor at Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty, Novosibirsk State Technical University NETI.
Previously, in August 2019, the news about a young company of NSTU NETI graduates and employees who creates technologies of the future, was published on the main page of the popular American journal about technology TechCrunch. The world's first voice robot that can simulate human speech impressed the journalists of a leading American online publisher.
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