Are Akpans Trick or Treat: Unveiling Helpful Biases in Assistant Systems

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Autori principali: Sun, Jiao, Hou, Yu, Kim, Jiin, Peng, Nanyun
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author Sun, Jiao
Hou, Yu
Kim, Jiin
Peng, Nanyun
author_facet Sun, Jiao
Hou, Yu
Kim, Jiin
Peng, Nanyun
contents Information-seeking AI assistant systems aim to answer users' queries about knowledge in a timely manner. However, both the human-perceived helpfulness of information-seeking assistant systems and its fairness implication are under-explored. In this paper, we study computational measurements of helpfulness. We collect human annotations on the helpfulness of dialogue responses, develop models for automatic helpfulness evaluation, and then propose to use the helpfulness level of a dialogue system towards different user queries to gauge the fairness of a dialogue system. Experiments with state-of-the-art dialogue systems, including ChatGPT, under three information-seeking scenarios reveal that existing systems tend to be more helpful for questions regarding concepts from highly-developed countries than less-developed countries, uncovering potential fairness concerns underlying the current information-seeking assistant systems.
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spellingShingle Are Akpans Trick or Treat: Unveiling Helpful Biases in Assistant Systems
Sun, Jiao
Hou, Yu
Kim, Jiin
Peng, Nanyun
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Information-seeking AI assistant systems aim to answer users' queries about knowledge in a timely manner. However, both the human-perceived helpfulness of information-seeking assistant systems and its fairness implication are under-explored. In this paper, we study computational measurements of helpfulness. We collect human annotations on the helpfulness of dialogue responses, develop models for automatic helpfulness evaluation, and then propose to use the helpfulness level of a dialogue system towards different user queries to gauge the fairness of a dialogue system. Experiments with state-of-the-art dialogue systems, including ChatGPT, under three information-seeking scenarios reveal that existing systems tend to be more helpful for questions regarding concepts from highly-developed countries than less-developed countries, uncovering potential fairness concerns underlying the current information-seeking assistant systems.
title Are Akpans Trick or Treat: Unveiling Helpful Biases in Assistant Systems
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12554