These video/rendered chatbots have huge potential and will be taken in many different directions.
They are gradually over time approaching a p-zombie-esque situation. They add multi-modal communication - body/facial language/expression and prosody. So even if the text alone is not too good the simultaneous rending of the multi-channel information adds some sort of legitimacy. Though in these simple cases the bot only takes text as input so much of the communication complexity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_complexity> is running semi half-duplex. John From: The Wizard [mailto:key.unive...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 1:02 AM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] New KurzweilAI.net site... with my silly article & sillier chatbot ;-p ;) .... Have you guys talked to the army's artificial intelligence chat bot yet? http://sgtstar.goarmy.com/ActiveAgentUI/Welcome.aspx nothing really special other than the voice sounds really natural.. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Mike Archbold <jazzbo...@gmail.com> wrote: The concept of "citizen science" sounds great, Ben -- especially in this age. From my own perspective I feel like my ideas are good but it falls short always of the rigor of a proper scientist, so I don't have that pretense. The internet obviously helps out a lot. The plight of the solitary laborer is better than it used to be, I think, due to the availability of information/research. Mike Archbold On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote: > Check out my article on the H+ Summit > > http://www.kurzweilai.net/h-summit-harvard-the-rise-of-the-citizen-scientist > > and also the Ramona4 chatbot that Novamente LLC built for Ray Kurzweil > a while back > > http://www.kurzweilai.net/ramona4/ramona.html > > It's not AGI at all; but it's pretty funny ;-) > > -- Ben > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC > CTO, Genescient Corp > Vice Chairman, Humanity+ > Advisor, Singularity University and Singularity Institute > External Research Professor, Xiamen University, China > b...@goertzel.org > > " > "When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away > at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack > showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, > and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone > before." > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/? <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> & > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/? <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> & Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Carlos A Mejia Taking life one singularity at a time. www.Transalchemy.com agi | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Modify Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
