Second Life ABC Bot 02, originally uploaded by Gary Hayes.

Not sure who Jim is but the steel man sitting down is one of many early prototypes of an Artificial Intelligence Chat Bot I am experimenting with. The back-end engine for this one is freely hosted at Pandorabots.com and I am using a mixture of existing libraries across a range of subjects but also creating specific ones to various commercial and non-for profit sim developments.

I have started to use several off the shelf sculpties (single, colour map formed smooth prim) of the human form. On this one you can see I also mapped a 360 scan of one of those bio forms which makes it look a little stupid - especially with the hat. I am also doing a script at the moment that will make his head turn and arms move in synch with his chat, but the easiest way to do this is to log in as an avatar and attach the chat bot ‘object’ to the body of the avie that is kept awake artificially.

The quality of the automatic responses is improving each day and I think we are only a couple of years away from having a chat bot that is unrecognisable (in chat at least) from many, if not most, of the current SL inhabitants.

Posted by Gary Hazlitt from inside Second Life

Categories: AI, Bio World, Communication, Experimental, Identity, Scripting, Second Life, Sent In-World, Social Experiment, Virtual Worlds
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Well it has been such a long time since I last posted that your probably wondering if I am still alive, well yes very much so. I have been caught up in building sims for companies and lots of other bigger picture things that my daily exploits are too dense to find time to blog about them! Still I will try to do a catch up and talk about some of the fun activities I have been doing. For the moment here is a video of the making of one of the sims I built The Pond.

Categories: Building, Environment Design, Environments, Scripting, Sound Design, Virtual Worlds
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