Explainable Composition of Aggregated Assistants

A new design of an AI assistant that has become increasingly popular is that of an "aggregated assistant" -- realized as an orchestrated composition of several individual skills or agents that can each perform atomic tasks. In this paper, we will talk about the role of planning in the automated composition of such assistants and explore how concepts in automated planning can help to establish transparency of the inner workings of the assistant to the end-user.

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