2. More specific for your AGI, What do you see the virtual pets doing? Specifically as end user functions for the consumer, the selling points you would give them, and how the AGI would help these functions. Is it going to be a rich enough situation in general to display more than just a blocks world type of "pet, go fetch me the blue ball over there" James Ratcliff
Well, it's a commercial project so I can't really talk about what the capabilities of the version 1.0 virtual pets will be. But the idea will be to start simple, and then incrementally roll out smarter and smarter versions. And, the idea is to make the pets flexible and adaptive learning systems, rather than just following fixed behavior patterns. One practical limitation is that we need to host a lot of pets on each server... However, we can do some "borg mind" stuff to work around this problem -- so that each pet retains its own personality, yet benefits from "collective learning" done basis on the totality of all the pets' memories... -- Ben ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
