An Australian care home is using an AI-powered robot assistant to provide comfort and companionship to dementia patients. The robot, named Viv, has learned the real experiences of dementia from four patients and is designed to relate to the patients, using a large language model (LLM). “Viv is an AI character, who we created with women with lived experience of dementia, and we created her first as a sort of interactive video experience,” said Jill Bennett, the director of the Felt Experience and Empathy Lab (fEEL) at the University of New South Wales. “But when these large language model AI en…