Cognitive Code develops software personal assistant using Lua

Posted by ljmacphee on October 19, 2007 under artificial intelligence in the news |

Information is scare, but it looks like a cool chat bot style application. It appears the bot will perform tasks for you. There is a desktop version which runs on most OS and a pocket/phone version coming soon. A developer’s kit looks to be coming as well. Interestingly Lua is the language for the kit. I don’t know much about Lua but it is hitting my radar screen more frequently. It is an open source scripting language.

Using proprietary artificial intelligence technologies, code named “SILVIA”, Cognitive Code Corporation has developed a cross-platform runtime for business and consumer applications. “Desktop SILVIA” delivers conversational computing for Windows (2K, XP, Vista), Mac OS-X, Linux, BSD, and Solaris operating systems.The new technology platform gives SILVIA-enabled applications the ability to understand and react to users based on the contextual cues during conversational interactions, and to extract meaning from free-form spoken or text input. SILVIA applications can also easily interact with and manipulate files, operating systems, and other software in order to do practical things for users based on conversational interactions.

Over the past several months, the SILVIA techology has evolved into a robust, full featured software development and training environment for intelligent applications, giving Cognitive Code the ability to begin product development using the platform and tools.

Cognitive Code plans to release the “Desktop SILVIA” runtime core as part of the SILVIA Developer’s Studio, due in Q4, 2007. [ read more Cognitive Code]

More information:
Engadget, Cognitive Code shows off SILVIA artificial intelligence platform
Lua
IBM article on Lua