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11.13.09Philip Rosedale’s Artificial Intelligence (3): Avatar Agents?Philip Rosedale wants to move us closer to the Singularity, at least according to an interview with the New Scientist, in which he says that his new company will "takes the concept of virtual life a lot further. I'm looking at what else we can digitise. How can we evolve human experience?" Which is to say: how can we kick start the ability of computers to contain digital versions of ourselves or, if not of ourselves exactly then all the information that floats around us. This also lifts off of a comment he made to Time Magazine in which he said: "We're ...
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09.15.08Artificial Intelligence to Give Us The Next Level in Prim BabiesAt the recent VW conference in LA I heard Dr. Ben Goertzel speak about his AI project at Novamente: virtual pets. This was within the context of ownership, content protection, and how to move items from world to world. He made the rather intriguing comment that it's not just about objects but about "cognitive agents". He explained the challenge through the Novamenta lens: if I buy a virtual dog and then train the dog, who owns the rights to that 'cognitive agent'? Afterall, I've invested time in training the dog, so it now "houses" more than just the object (the ...
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05.22.08Artificial Intelligence adds new dimension to SLIf you watch this, it may underwhelm you. But at the core of this simple narrative - SL's CrispyNoodle Nowicka switches a gun from one briefcase to another in front of a dull gray robot avatar - is a significant advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI.) Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., have begun to use Second Life as a training ground for AI research. Edd Hifeng - the robot in the video - is a creation of AI, and he benefits from SL because, as the Associated Press writes, "it's a controllable environment where testing intelligent creations is ...
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