Thematic Session 1

This lecture aims to help participants build an accurate mental model of modern AI chatbots through a practical, non-technical approach. The goal is to understand what a chatbot actually is, but more importantly what it is not, and therefore what it can and cannot do, to promote informed usage. We will explore how a chatbot processes user’s sentences, generates responses, and what its limitations are. The lecture will help answer some common questions: do chatbots truly understand what we say? Can they understand emotions? Do they learn from what we tell them? Why do they sometimes make mistakes?