Getting virtually personal: chatbots who actively listen to you and infer your personality

We build conversational agents to serve as AI interviewers who engage a user in a one-on-one, text-based conversation. Our live demos showcase two special skills of an AI interviewer: (a) ability to actively listen to a user during an interview-responding to complex and diverse user input empathetically; and (b) the ability to automatically infer the user's Big 5 personality traits from the interview. We provide an overview of the technologies that enable these two abilities and real-world applications of such AI interviewers.