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Blazing onto screens after a solid run of hit Marvel shows on Netflix, The Punisher will take up where Daredevil season 2 left off. Daredevil's sophomoric season introduced us to the killing machine that is Frank Castle, and followed him on his mission of vengeance as he sought out the people responsible for killing his family. Frank Castle is now a wanted man on the run from the government, the police, and a mysterious private military corporation known as Anvil. Over the last several months, we've been treated to teasers, set photos, interviews, and trailers. All either lacked a release date or had it scratched out.
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We've pieced together from the vast nebula of source material -- which included real trailers and "found footage"-- and what we think we'll see when The Punisher finally drops on Netflix. Do we have any idea? Are we truly prepared for this level of awesome? We know it will be gritty and we know it will for sure be violent. We know it will probably make us crap ourselves, but boy are we excited. CBR has rounded up the 15 things that you need to remember going into this momentous occasion so you're prepared to have your mind blown.
Most people are familiar with the grim details of Frank Castle's origin story; it's been told and retold in various comic book and cinematic formats almost as much as Bruce Wayne's. There's a reason for that; it's vital to the understanding of Frank Castle's vengeance-fueled personality. Though the medium might change, the details don't, and every version includes the brutal massacre of his family.
In the vast majority of the comic and film versions of Frank's origin story, his family is the tragic result of being at the wrong place at the wrong time, namely in the crossfire of a mafia hit. Sometimes it's an accident, sometimes it turns out it was on purpose. Daredevil season 2 revealed that the hit was ordered by the commander of Frank's old Marine Corps unit in Iraq, Colonel Ray Schoonover.
The skull logo, along with two smoking guns and a trench coat are synonymous symbols for The Punisher. They go together like blood spray on walls. Daredevil season 2 had Frank sporting simple, utilitarian looks with dark jeans, field jackets, tactical boots, and hoodies. He didn't yet have his ballistics vest or a shirt with the skull logo emblazoned on it.
It makes sense, because the season was used as a jumping off point for the character, and a nice way to showcase the origins of his character so that they could focus more on his growth when his own series finally rolled around. At the conclusion of Daredevil season 2, he's sporting the logo we all associate with The Punisher, as he's finally accepted his true calling, and that it is bigger than going after just the murderers that took the life of his family.
Since the news broke that Netflix was going to be developing a Punisher television series, fans have been freaking out over any piece of information that's released (which never seemed to include a release date). From teaser trailers, to actual trailers, to press releases, we've all been trying to piece together the plot and trajectory of the show.
The latest teaser trailer, which included "found footage" of a security camera clip, featured several armed paramilitary types on the hunt for Castle. We now know they're part of Anvil, the private military corporation run by Billy Russo, a member of Frank's old squad and now the CEO. Clearly a secretive organization formed after the nebulous events that occurred in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Frank is on their hit list. Or are they on his?
The brutal killing machine that is The Punisher didn't come by his skills accidentally. Frank Castle is a veteran, and his martial abilities were honed in overseas combat. Originally an army veteran of the Vietnam War, he was upgraded to being a former Force Reconnaissance Marine.
To position the character of Frank Castle in the current military context, he is a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. He has a close bond with his squad, led by Colonel Ray Schoonover who, as was revealed in Daredevil season 2, formed a group of drug and gun smugglers with other members of Frank's cohort. Frank has kept the skills he acquired sharp, and when he found out the covert group had a hand in the death of his family, he goes all in to take them out, a mission he will continue in the new series. Oo-rah!
Frank Castle may seem ruthless in the trailers, but Daredevil season 2 showed us that he had a softer side. Amidst the violent outbursts and abrasive demeanor, Frank Castle revealed a more vulnerable aspect of his personality to Karen Page. She endeavored to tease details out of him that would prove useful to Foggy and Matt Murdock when they were acting as his defense attorneys, details that would help prove his innocence for the murder of a District Attorney.
She visited him routinely in his prison cell and in the hospital, asking questions that allowed him to open up about his history. She even suggested he use a PTSD defense, but he refused, stating that what happened to him didn't happen on the battlefield, and he wouldn't disrespect the soldiers who really had it. It remains to be seen if he'll be as gooey in the new series.
When last we saw our hero, he had been defended by Nelson and Murdock, in "The Trial" Parts 1 and 2. Karen Page had been working him over, trying to get him to open up about his motivations, and trying to make him appear sympathetic to a jury. Foggy didn't even want the case, but he was putting in the hours while Matt was once again obsessing over Elektra. When Matt does finally show up, his presence only serves to decrease the competence and faith we all had in his lawyering abilities.
Once Frank is on the stand, Matt asks the judge if he can "treat the witness as hostile" (legalese for being able to ask the witness leading questions), and proceeds to ask very few questions. After his long winded speech, Frank is soon found guilty. Maybe it's best The Punisher has nothing to do with Matt Murdock.
After the trial was a disaster, and Nelson and Murdock failed to keep Frank out of prison, he was sentenced to a stretch on Ryker's Island. After a vicious breakout, he resumed his vigilante ways. When Frank got wind that he was being framed and set up by the Blacksmith, he went to find Karen Page, who happened to be working on an article about "The Punisher" for the New York Bulletin.
When the two fell under heavy gunfire, Frank saved Karen's life, and she in turn helped him to identify the people responsible for his family's murder. Both of them are people trying to be silenced, and all they're after is the truth, a point which they bond over. He opened up to Karen and continued to do so as the series progressed and they got closer.
Unlike the other heroes of Hell's Kitchen that were recently featured in The Defenders, Frank Castle doesn't have super strength, super speed, super senses, or any sort of mind control. He's just a man with a mission, and if there's any superpower he can purport to have, it's willpower. Frank Castle has made a name for himself by being a regular joe amidst titans, whose sheer grit and determination, coupled with years of hard won military training have forged him into an unstoppable force of nature.
Not having superpowers doesn't mean he can't whoop those that do have them. He first appeared as a villain in the Spider-Man comics, and has gone on to duke it out with everyone from Wolverine to Captain America. He often is at odds against the entire Marvel Universe.
Marvel has a distinctive tone to its Cinematic Universe that tends to be more lighthearted, with more comic relief than say, DC. Kid friendly. Daredevil was one of the first series to break away from that with a gritty look and a focus on both action and dramatic storytelling through adult themes. If you take what we've seen in Daredevil and crank it up, you're getting close to the territory being promised by the creative team involved with The Punisher series.
Series showrunner and producer Steve Lightfoot has repeatedly said that it will properly convey the tone that The Punisher comics have had (albeit a few, like the Punisher/Archie comic crossover was worth a few chuckles), with adult themes, and plenty of graphic violence. Anything less would be a disservice to the great character arc of Frank Castle begun in Daredevil season 2.
Series showrunner Steve Lightfoot was also the executive producer for the incredibly graphic Hannibal, which focused on Hannibal Lecter when he was still a practicing doctor of psychiatry and helping the FBI solve murders by serial killers. As gruesome as it was, it was anchored by powerful leading performances, strong plots, and beautiful cinematography. Lightfoot also wrote several episodes, helping to shape its distinctive mood and tone.
We can expect to see that same stamp of macabre chaos on The Punisher, and perhaps a little elegance inherent to the violence of the series. Hannibal got away with some pretty graphic gore by rendering it almost beautiful. The Punisher will have its own distinct look and feel, as it should, but it will definitely be through the shaping of capable creative hands. It will have to walk that line between shocking gratuity and dramatic restraint.
James Bond has Q, Batman has Alfred, and The Punisher has Microchip. In The Punisher comics, David Linus "Microchip" Lieberman supplies Frank Castle with all the special weapons, technology, money laundering, and moral support he needs to dish out vengeance to bad guys. A genius hacker by trade, one hack brought him too close to actual criminals for his comfort, and he decided to lay low as an unassuming businessman. But when his nephew ran afoul of Kingpin and was killed for trying to hack into his private computers, he started to collaborate with Frank Castle.
In season 2 of Daredevil, Frank receives a CD disc with "Micro" written on it. In a recent teaser trailer, we hear Microchip's voice in a "glitch" from a surveillance tape, spouting some anti-government sentiments, and onset photos have depicted him the opposite of the overweight accountant type we've seen in the comics.
It's a long known fact that The Punisher doesn't play well with others. This is why he isn't a part of any superhero factions or groups, and prefers to hunt criminals alone. He has less opinions concerning his methods to deal with, and he can lead the solitary lifestyle he prefers, while never having to get close to anyone. This also means that he's usually at odds with every superhero group there is, which usually leads to some violent altercations. But the entire Marvel Universe?
In The Marvel Universe vs. The Punisher Volume 1 , The Punisher exists in a post-Apocalyptic world where both superheroes and villains have turned into cannibals. It's all Spider-Man's fault, who went rabid years before while fighting Rhino and turned into some sort of zombie. One man must hunt the wasteland that is NYC; The Punisher, aka The Last Gun On Earth.
The relationship between Frank Castle and Karen Page was one of the most unlikely but engrossing ones in Daredevil season 2. It allowed viewers to see different sides of both the characters; Frank could be a little less distant, a little less aggressive, and quite honestly, it gave him a lot more dialogue than we'd otherwise get if all he did was mow dirtbags down. She successfully assists him in finding out the identities of the people responsible for the murder of his family, and he shows that he doesn't just take lives when he saves hers during a crossfire.
Originally the character of Karen Page wasn't going to appear in the series, but producer Steve Lightfoot liked their chemistry so much that he wanted her to be a part of it. Her presence will not only be great for enhancing Frank Castle's story arc, but also continue to build hers.
When Karen Page left the offices of Nelson and Murdock, "avocados at law", she began her career as an investigative journalist, taking over the offices of Ben Urich, who tragically lost his life investigating Kingpin's personal affairs. Karen had a natural aptitude with her hard-nosed commitment to uncovering the truth. She'll be tracking down the latest scoops in The Punisher series, and returning alongside her will be Mitchell Ellison, the editor of the New York Bulletin.
Ellison and Urich often clashed over the Bulletin's content, with Ellison being in favor of whatever would sell the most papers, and Urich being in favor of real hard hitting stories that uncovered corruption. Ellison played it safe and stayed under Kingpin's radar, but when he had to fire Urich for getting too deep into a story, he knew he'd made a mistake. Here's hoping he grows a pair in the new series.
Jigsaw (real name Billy Russo), The Punisher's notorious arch nemesis, will finally make an appearance in the series. He will be played by Ben Barnes (most recently seen in Westworld), and be an old military friend of Frank's. They served in the same unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan that was alluded to in Daredevil season 2, led by Colonel Ray Schoonover, aka the Blacksmith, and got into some heavy gun and drug running.
Billy Russo seems on the up and up, now the CEO of the Anvil Corporation, a private military force that is hunting Frank down. He and Frank have both suffered loss, tragedy, and trauma, and have emerged as different men because of it. But who is the villain and who is the hero when the lines in the sand are blurred and two allies become enemies? Barnes promises a charismatic and dynamic performance.
Are you excited to watch The Punisher? Let us know in the comments!


text: Cupcakes were the latest challenge from Karin Jurik's Different Strokes from Different Folks. Not having used oils in quite a while, I finally managed to squeeze paint onto the palette for the painting of OP and Martha (below). I hate to waste paint so I always move what I can to a fresh palette and and try to put it to good use. This seemed like a good challenge for leftover paint.

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Smoking is only permitted in four designated areas outside the terminals.
Update from Charles on the 14th March 2019:
Outside only: You can smoke at departure at very east end is
small area with bench and pole-tray.
Feedback from AJ on the 25th September 2017:
I can confirm that PDX International Airport in Portland, only has smoking areas for fliers outside of the airport. There are two official smoking sections, one on each end of the load/drop off zones on the first level (outside of baggage claim areas).
I have also smoked without issue on the pickup platform, second level, outside route.
E-Cigarette use is also banned.
E-Cigarette use is also banned.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Sometimes Parenting is Hard
Then I changed my thinking and realized that sometimes homeschooling is hard. Large and Medium were not getting along. Not getting along in a loud, angry, insulting kind of way. They could not agree on who would read the history chapter first. Why this led to an all out struggle is unclear, but it wasn't pretty.
We were going to Park Day, meeting a bunch of homeschooling families for a nice afternoon of play and parents chatting. Last week's Park Day ended with Large whining that we had not yet done history. In response to that, this brilliant parent decided we should do history first. We are on a survey course of history, the kids want to finish it to move on to more in depth study of periods that particularly interest them. I suppose we could just skip the step of finishing out the 19th and 20th centuries together, but they don't want to.
So, I decided that sometimes homeschooling is just hard. I waited for the storm to pass, they worked it out, ending in a few giggles. We read the history, discussed it and moved on with the day. Later, a friend helped me to see that this really was just a parenting issue, not a homeschooling issue. It could have been anything that set them off, they are siblings after all. And close siblings, just a bit over a year apart. They do nearly everything together and probably get sick of each other several times a day.
Sometimes families are hard. But as homeschoolers I think we tend to hold ourselves to higher standards. We aren't allowed to have bad days. We could, after all, just send the kids to school and get some time to ourselves in the middle of the day. I sometimes fantasize about the wonderful projects I could get done during the day if they weren't with me, if I wasn't driving all over the 5 county metro area to get them where they needed to be. But I would be just as unproductive if they were in school as I am with them out. And I'd miss the fights and the reconciliations. Those are some pretty important life skills.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
For the first time ever, I planned out our homeschooling schedule. I've been using the Homeschool Tracker for a while to capture attendance records. In the past I've had great intentions at the beginning of the year to plug in each and every activity for record keeping. But we never accomplished as much as I planned and it turned out to be a whole lot of work for me, with little benefit.
This year, though, we were faced with several time challenges. Our goals include finishing The Story of the World as our history overview for Large and Medium so they can focus on particularly interesting episodes and get into further details. They also wanted to try a more structured science program and chose Life Science from Plato learning. They want to continue reading literature together, perfect their cursive, learn to write articles and papers, build their vocabulary and progress in their math. Small, of course, wants to become a more confident reader, absorb the world around him and have fun.
With all our activities, dance and piano classes, homeschool group meetings and Roots&Shoots, it's hard to fit everything in. All three kids have a paying gig as dog walkers, Large has five hours of dance a week, Medium has three hours of dance, girl scouts and piano. Small has on hour of dance and piano.
Add to the mix my volunteer work with the wonderful InHome Conference, teaching science lab, facilitating Roots&Shoots, helping new homeschoolers find their way in our Westside House group and my need to earn significant money to pay for all this, and you get an idea of my sense of panic.
One final complication is that our login to Plato, made affordable through the Homeschool Buyers Co-Op, is active between the hours of 1 and 4 only. So, I carefully mapped the time we each could spend on each activity, overlapping where necessary, separating the kids when needed and put the schedules on nice colorful charts on the wall. It's been working for a couple days now, with some adjustments we might do OK. Most of all, the kids seem to have more play and daydream time now.
I, on the other hand, have no time. I can fit my conference work in when there is a computer free and if I can have access to my files. Our great idea is to sell books on Amazon, initially from our own stock and later from thrifting. This can be a good way to earn money, but I just don't know where I'm going to squeeze in trips to thrift stores and library sales, to the post office for shipping and computer time to track orders. I guess I'll know it when I see it.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
How We Started School
We began the school year with a vacation. It just seemed right, watching the neighborhood kids trudge off to school with their heavy backpacks while we were packing and preparing to go. I've never been much for following the school calendar, but do keep track of our learning days as the state requires. The August start rule seems harsh to me, and did as a child. August is still summer, schools are rarely air conditioned, the sun is shining!
We went to a YMCA family camp in the northwoods of Wisconsin. We learned and lived much more there than we would have at home with our usual schedule. It is a beautiful, quiet, secluded spot. The kids met up with old and new friends, were gone from the cabin except when hungry or at bedtime. They caught turtles, frogs, and snakes - or rather watched as other kids did the dirty work. They kayaked out on the lake and watched bald eagles soaring overhead, looking for a meal. The foraged for firewood and birch bark, learned archery, played group games, swam, jumped off the raft and got eaten alive by mosquitoes.
On the way home, we saw this handsome pink elephant not half a mile away from a similarly huge cow. Not sure what the lesson was supposed to be there, but we enjoyed it all the same.


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The 37th Annual Arts Around the Lake fine art artist market will be located around Westhampton Lake of the University of Richmond's campus.
My Booth will be located at the northern end of the strip of artists on Lakeview Lane. Booth #62. :)
Arts Around the lake is a juried fine art show. Proceeds from the show fund a local student in attending the University of Richmond! The show is sponsored by the Greater Richmond Alumni Chapter. About 70-75 artists will be showing work there!
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Here is a Map of the Artist Booths! Mine is on the northern point of the line of artists! Booth #62! Right side of Lakeview Lane if you're headed North.
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"The results of our interim analysis showed that in the scalp cooling group, 50 percent of participants retained their hair, and in the control group 0 percent did," reported Julia R. Nangia, M.D., during a press conference at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Nangia is an assistant professor of Medicine at the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine.
For this study, researchers evaluated the Orbis Paxman Hair Loss Prevention System (OPHLPS) in women being treated with neoadjuvant or adjuvant taxane and/or anthracycline–based chemotherapy for their stage 1/2 breast cancer. The multicenter trial was conducted at seven sites across the United States, from December 2013 to September 2016.
The Orbis Paxman Hair Loss Prevention System, developed by Paxman Coolers Ltd, consists of a two-cap system, with the inner silicon cap circulating a refrigerated fluid and the outer neoprene cap insulating the scalp and fitting snugly to the patient's head with a chin strap. Both caps are fitted once and worn for the duration of each chemotherapy treatment. The two-cap system ensures the coolant stays at a consistent temperature, and is connected to a small machine, which can be briefly detached from the patient to allow for greater mobility during sessions.
Participants (182) were randomized in a 2-1 ratio to a scalp cooling or a control arm with no scalp cooling, and assessed for alopecia, quality of life (QOL), and safety. Patients were further stratified by treatment site and type of chemotherapy; they were not eligible for the trial if they had migraines, anemia, hypothyroidism or other uncontrolled medical conditions.
Those assigned to the scalp cooling arm wore the device for 30 minutes prior to their chemotherapy treatment, for the duration of their treatment and for 90 minutes following treatment, Nangia explained. With most patients remaining 30 minutes in the clinic after chemotherapy, Nangia said scalp cooling means they have to stay about one hour longer.
Alopecia was assessed using CTCAE v.4.0 criteria: no hair loss (grade 0), hair loss of up to 50 percent of normal and no wig required (grade 1) and hair loss of more than 50 percent of normal, wig required (grade 2). Investigators defined success in preventing alopecia as grade 0 or 1. Alopecia assessments were conducted at baseline and at two to four weeks after each chemotherapy session by a blinded healthcare provider, the clinician and the participant.
For those wearing the device, a comfort scale was also administered at each use, with responses ranging along a five-point continuum from very comfortable to very uncomfortable. Three QOL questionnaires — the EORTC C30, the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale and the Body Image Scale — were administered at baseline, after four cycles of chemotherapy, and at completion of chemotherapy in women receiving more than four cycles.
A total of 142 scalp cooling and control group participants (95 and 47, respectively) were evaluable at the time of the planned interim analysis in September 2016. The trial's 50 percent success rate surpassed the trial's superiority boundary, and as result, the Data Safety Monitoring Board agreed to terminate the study early.
Hair retention was better among patients on taxane chemotherapy, which was expected said Nangia, noting that the hair retention rate with taxanes was 65 percent versus 22 percent with anthracyclines.
The most common reasons that randomized patients dropped out were that they changed their mind or they were randomized to the control arm and wanted to use the cold cap. Four patients dropped out during the pre-cooling phase because the device was too cold or uncomfortable, and one felt claustrophobic; one other participant withdrew during chemotherapy, also because the device was too cold.
A total of 54 grade 1/2 adverse events (AEs) occurred, and the most common reported during cycle 1 were headache (11.9 percent), nausea (4 percent) and dizziness (3 percent). There were eight unanticipated AEs, which included dry skin and scalp pain.
"Most patients rated the device as 'reasonably comfortable', and very few found it to be uncomfortable," Nangia said. Responses to the QOL assessments showed no significant difference between the experimental versus control arm or in the successful hair retention versus alopecia group. "We're still looking to develop a [tailored] alopecia-specific quality-of-life tool," said Nangia, "one that may help scalp cooling to become a covered health insurance benefit, so that all women would have access to it."
She noted that the study's main limitation was variability in how well the device was fitted to patients' scalps. "The fit of the cap is key," stressed Nangia. "If there are any gaps, patients do experience hair loss." As the trial went on, however, she said that nurses or other staff members became more skilled with using the device, increasing its effectiveness. She also cautioned that most patients will experience some thinning of their hair.
Between chemotherapy sessions, it is recommended that patients use sulfate-free shampoos because they are gentler on the hair and plenty of conditioner, as well as avoid products like straighteners that tug at the roots.
Women in this study will be followed for the next five years to monitor overall survival, recurrence of cancer and potential metastasis to the scalp. Previously-reported mature data from very large studies (more than 1,000 participants) of scalp-cooling systems in Europe where they are more widely used found no increased risk of scalp metastasis as the single site of recurrence or any decrease in overall survival between women who received scalp cooling and those who did not, Nangia noted.
Researchers on the study recommend more studies of this technology for other solid tumors and with other chemotherapy regimens, as well as additional research on the impact of chemotherapy-induced alopecia on patient psyche and body image.
Following on these trial results, the manufacturer intends to seek FDA approval for OPHLPS. The agency gave clearance to the DigniCap scalp-cooling system in December 2015.
Nangia J, Wang T, Niravath P, et al. Scalp cooling alopecia prevention trial (SCALP) for patients with early-stage breast cancer. Presented at: 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; December 6-10, 2016; San Antonio, TX. Abstract S5-02.
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BoeingGuy wrote:AS/QX did SJC-GEG for a short time. Supposedly the flight did well, so not sure why they pulled it.
It's interesting that AS is still expanding SJC even with the VX merger and their SFO presence.
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Dialog Management as a Key Technology for Conversational Systems
Dialog Management as a Key Technology for Conversational Systems
ML is applied to a lot of domains these days. One of the interesting applications is learning to have a conversation. This panel explores how to think about the problem.
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Following are some notes and highlights from a very interesting panel discussion about the technology principles from leading companies providing conversational agents (i.e. chatbots, personal assistants, etc.)
- Conference: Conversational Interactions
- Session: Dialog Management as a Key Technology for Conversational Systems
- Date: February 6, 2018, in San Jose, CA
Who was on the panel:
- Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Lead Product Manager, Dialogflow at Google: Ilya has been working on conversational agents for over a decade. Focused on supporting conversations with multiple turns servicing multiple backends. Dialogflow is Google's main platform for extending Google Assistant. It's a cross-platform tool used by Facebook bots and other assistants. The focus is on the issues of creating true conversations.
- Alborz Geramifard, Machine Learning Manager at Amazon: He started building the Alexa that we see today and has built a team to address the challenges presented by longer open-ended conversations, with the goal of advancing conversational AI. The focus is on the less mechanical and transactional to more personalization and natural voice experiences.
- Nirmal Mukhi, Master Inventor at IBM Watson Education: Applying AI technology to education, primarily focused on tutoring. Working on the harder goal of creating a tutoring experience for any piece of content. These use cases require addressing problems related to creating rich conversational interactions.
Marie Meteer (moderator and member of the AVIOS Advanced Dialog Group) gave some opening remarks:
Are there examples in the marketplace today of truly conversational systems that you can quickly describe? Assuming there is a demand, this panel is primarily asking the question, "What is keeping us from creating truly conversational systems?"
Before we ask this question more directly, let's build up to it. Most commercial systems today seem to take a "form-filling" approach to driving conversation. Do you think this approach is sufficient for the majority of applications? What approaches are more powerful than 'form filling' and 'question-answering'? What approaches do you think we will need to adopt in order to create more flexible conversations?
Here is our panel's primary question:What is keeping us from creating truly conversational systems?
What are the roadblocks and how can we overcome them to create truly conversational systems? The best user experiences today seem to be the result of talented individuals rather than the result of reproducible design methodologies. Is there a methodology that can be consistently applied to create good user interface designs for conversational systems?
Please discuss your perception of the demand in the marketplace for true conversational systems.
Ilya: Define what true conversational systems are: supporting the context of the conversation, having multiple topics, understanding speakers.
Demand from companies is huge, but from consumers, demand is driven by expectations. If you ask users, they don't expect the assistant to be aware of the context or support clarifying questions. They are used to search engines, so when we say now you can ask your question in a natural way, we don't see users actually doing that or using clarifying questions.
Example of a complex query: What will be the weather in San Jose? Now, book a hotel there. Or it's my wife's birthday, so order flowers. Users don't think systems can actually do this. When they believe systems can support those, then we'll see demand grow.
Alborz: Lots of companies are all excited about bringing the conversation to the next level. But
there are big gaps. [Shows Moviebot demo video.] Moviebot shows a long conversation where the user asks a lot of follow-up questions about directors, movies, actors, plots, ratings, where you can watch it, etc. It has interesting qualities: some personalization, some customization. It was launched to see if people would have longer conversations with it. While most topics are just one query/command, the average Moviebot conversation length is much greater and more varied.
Nirmal: Demand isn't there because technology isn't there. But as we open it up, we will run into
issues, such as how many times Moviebot said "Steven Spielberg" and didn't use coreference
pronouns. We do this naturally, but machine learning and NLU is not up to this yet.
Are there examples in the marketplace now where we see truly conversational systems?
Alborz: We don't see anything out there. That's why we set up Alexaprize: a $2.5M prize for building a bot to chat for 20 mins (or get the highest rating). No one won the grand prize, but there was lots of good work. Initially, the focus was on using the latest technology, but users didn't respond positively because it didn't work. State-of-the-art machine learning was getting low ratings. Many then started paying more attention to the users, so they began to improve by looking at how interactions can be improved.
Ilya: There are some niche areas where users are having some longer conversations in specific
domains: movie questions, movie tickets, or niche topics where people aren't motivated to ask
random questions. Setting up expectations is key to success.
Nirmal: The key is setting up state and context and being able to understand language within that
context. What IBM Watson is doing is more specific. Example: the Watson tutor, which is a
cognitive tutoring system. It's a chat window (not voice) but is multimodal in providing different types of learning material. The interaction is stateful and conversational. It uses "Socratic" dialog where the system asks questions and the user answers (different than Alexa or Google Assistant, where the user asks the system). It starts with a general question and gets more specific. Students can say that they want to reread the material. The system provides a relevant section to read. The student comes back and questions continue. The system can generate questions on the fly to get students to create more specific questions and can also recognize when the student answers correctly but uses different wording than the questions. Students can ask questions. If questions are off track, the tutor will answer and help bring them back on track. Dialogs can be five or 30 turns of conversation. The goal is to keep students engaged and meet educational goals. You can have the best machine learning algorithms, but it's important to have the right tone and wording keep the student positive and engaged.
What approaches do we need to adopt to have these more flexible conversations?
Alborz: To go to the next level, we need to create a feedback loop where we can have conversations and get information/feedback back directly. So, I can change the way I interact. When the user is negative, we need to change. When feedback is positive, I can reinforce that activity. For machine learning, we need a lot of data. To get a lot of data, we need more and more positive interactions. In order to gather that data, the dialog manager has to work. Again, chicken and egg: need a good policy to get a good dialog manager. But to get a good dialog manager, you need a good policy. Current research is trying to use a simulated user to get more data (see NIPS 2017).
Nirmal: In order to manage… we don't have the tools. It still requires a lot of technical development. We need the creation of tools to be able to push forward so more can do it.
Ilya: Tools are important and bring attention to the problem. We need to look at the goals. Why do we need these truly conversational systems? When doing task-oriented dialog, the assistant is coordinating many different subsystems. We have to marry this third-party with the "main bot." So, we need to share context between apps. But that raises security questions. Dialog management is just one piece, just focused on the dialog — the decision-making is equally important but not necessarily distinguishable by the user. We need to connect to the knowledge graphs of the applications, but that's difficult with multiple graphs. Exposing a user to different systems is hard since the user doesn't have access to knowing where they are in the system. What systems are they actually talking to? From a user interactions perspective, users shouldn't care about the state of the conversation. They should be able to let the assistant handle all of the information.
Alborz: In terms of simplicity, this is true, but security is actually important to users, so there will be users who will object to their information holding their personal information. Trust of the customer becomes really important.
Ilya: On the technical side, security is important, but from the user side, that's not what they like to think about.
Nirmal: When we have actions with multiple steps, users need to know what stage of the interaction we are in.
Audience questions:
Text-messaging, people misunderstand each other all the time. It's easier in voice. Are any of you looking at recognizing emotional state of the voice? This may impact feelings about security.
A: Amazon is very excited about this. They are working on it, though users are split; some don't
want their emotions analyzed.
I: For Dialogflow, most systems don't supply text, much less voice and emotional recognition to third-party developers, so that is interesting, but we need to consider how to get users permissions.
N: Some of these detections happen over multiple turns. We need to track changes in emotion.
I: This is particularly an issue with children.
What is the formalism used underlying Moviebot (or other apps in Amazon)? What takes into
account context? [Yours truly, me, Emmett Coin, asked this!]
A: Moviebot was trying to solve the chicken/egg problem by collecting data on something that had multiple interactions. In the course of creating that, we found that there were repeats, so we created a way to track what had already been said to be able to track the dialog state — more like a rule-based approach in that it's keeping track of what's inferrable.
N: Similar policies in understanding context and references, tracking the last thing said and
sometimes more complex based on the type of conversation. Need to have that feedback loop to be
able to improve either after the fact or online.
Between human and bot, there is reinforcement learning and between bots and bots. How do
you do reinforcement learning?
A: When human-human interactions need to figure out when the human is satisfied. But when you create a bot, you can know what's inside the brain of the bot, so you can track bot satisfaction. Once a dialog makes a decision you can immediately assign credit.
[Note: if you are working on conversational systems, you should consider the Conversational Interaction conference next year. I'll see you there!]
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