Chapter 9, Giving the Robot an Artificial Personality

1. This is of course, a subjective question. I’m a big R2D2 fan. R2 is feisty, determined, and stubborn, as well as being a faithful companion and helper. R2 will get you out of a jam, fix your star fighter, provide cover from hostile fire, and hack Imperial computers. He is a Swiss Army Knife with wheels.
2. R2 D2 owes his personality to a combination of his emotional beeps and squawks (provided by Ben Burtt), his body movements provided by having a person inside his chassis (Kenny Baker). They were stuck with the not-very versatile chassis designed for the first Star Wars movie, which only has a head that moves. Most of R2's persona comes through his sounds, including his famous scream.

3. The two types are retrieval based and generative. Retrieval-based chatbots look up responses in lists of scripts, and choose from...