Disney patents AI character that remembers past chats to reply
Disney has been granted a patent for a system that lets an artificial intelligence character remember past conversations with a user. The system uses a machine learning model to analyze new messages, find similar memories from previous interactions, and use those memories to shape the character's next response.
In the filing’s own words
A system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing software code, a memory data structure storing memory features for an artificial intelligence interactive character (AIIC), and a trained machine learning (ML) model. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive interaction data describing a communication by a user with the AIIC, predict, using the trained ML model and the interaction data, at least one user memory feature(s) of the communication, and identify, using the memory data structure, one or more of the memory features for the AIIC as corresponding to the user memory feature(s). The software code also determines, using the user memory feature(s) and the corresponding one or more of the memory features for the AIIC, an interactive communication for execution by the AIIC in response to the communication by the user; and outputs the interactive communication to the AIIC.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A system comprising: a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory; the system memory storing a software code, a memory data structure storing a plurality of memory features for an artificial intelligence interactive character (AIIC), and a trained machine learning (ML) model; the hardware processor configured to execute the software code to: receive interaction data describing a communication by a user with the AIIC; predict, using the trained ML model and the interaction data, at least one user memory feature of the communication; identify, using the memory data structure, one or more of the plurality of memory features for the AIIC as corresponding to the at least one user memory feature, wherein identifying comprises comparing the at least one user memory feature and the one or more of the plurality of memory features across multiple dimensions, and computing an aggregated similarity score using dimension weights; determine, using the at least one user memory feature of the communication and the corresponding one or more of the plurality of memory features for the AIIC, an interactive communication for execution by the AIIC in response to the communication by the user; and output the interactive communication to the AIIC.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- Emotionally responsive artificial intelligence interactive character
- Patent number
- US12731044B2
- Application number
- 18119716
- Filed
- Mar 9, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06N 5/022 Physics & computingMore from Disney in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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