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Mohammad H. Mahoor

Mohammad H. Mahoor

Professor of mathematics

Jun 13, 2026

SamHOST
7:50
But what I wanted to understand from you that how has the large language model explosion changed? changed what's possible in social robotics and what risk does it introduce that you always need to kind of be careful about when you're building the social robots or even enhancing your current version of Ryan? That's a good question.
8:11
So like five years ago, before chat GPT, you know, became a like a large language models became commercially available.
8:19
We used to have, create our chatbots that were scripted.
8:24
So I hired a team of maybe six, seven students from English department to write dialogue.
8:32
And I don't know, we spent a lot of money and a lot of hours to write dialogue on different topics.
8:39
But at the end of the day, we could just have 90 minutes, just 90 minutes of non-repetitive conversation and dialogues with our chatbot system.
8:52
And that chatbot system was added, integrated into Ryan.

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SamHOST
25:39
So academic entrepreneurship is a different

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