Language Artificial Intelligences' Communicative Performance Quantified Through the Gricean Conversation Theory

This study pragmatically investigates an artificial intelligence (AI) speaker (AIS)'s verbal communicative performance based on real AI-human conversation data. Specifically, this study explores Grice's conversation theory, which enables the categorization of an AIS's mistaken utterances as violations of specific conversational maxims. Twenty native Korean-speaking participants recorded at least 50 conversations with