Archive for October, 2007
Will virtual life forms come to life?
Researchers at US firm Novamente have created software that learns by controlling avatars in virtual worlds.Initially the AIs will be embodied in pets that will get smarter by interacting with the avatars controlled by their human owners.
[read more. . . ] Online worlds to be AI incubators
Lately virtual worlds have been a test bed for experimenting with how humans will behave in various situations. Now the more complex virtual worlds are being used to create AIs. It’s a great idea. You can give your AI a body and a safe, controlled place to grow.
More information:
Novamente
Novemente Talk at Google
Ben Goertzel
Novamente: An Integrative Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence
Take a break and watch some robot movies
If you are in NYC you can visit the ‘Museum of Sex’ and see the: Sex Life of Robots (preview) (nsfw) movie. A slide show from the movie is at Wired if you can’t get to see the show or are at work now.
MIT Tech Videos is mostly just fun and fluff but you can search by genre and find some interesting and educational ones under ‘education’ and ‘engineering’.
RuBot II Rubik’s cube solving robot
Self Replicating Repairing Robots
Sony robots doing an ancient Japanese dance
A wall and tree climbing robot, really creepy, looks like a bug
Cognitive Code develops software personal assistant using Lua
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
