Second Life to be a training ground for AIs?

Posted Sep 13th 2007 7:28AM by Eloise Pasteur
Filed under: Gadgets, LSL, News

I know it sounds unlikely to anyone that scripts in lsl, but according to the BBC Technology news a firm called Novamente is working with ESC to produce AIs in pets, with the aim of branching out into babies, talking parrots etc.

The article points out that they believe places such as SL "will have a ready market for artificial pets" which is true - there is already such a market. You'd hope with ESC in the mix they'll actually be adding something to the pet market as well doing their research.

Do you want you're pet whispering "Dave? Dave?" as you tear memory modules out though?

Seriously though, good luck to them all.

Tags: AI-research, Electric-Sheep-Company, Novamente, pets, Second-Life

Reader Comments

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1. the first thing that came to my mind when I stated reading this articles was that comic about the prim wanting to eat blings Xp

Posted at 11:12AM on Sep 13th 2007 by TigroSpottystripes Katsu

2. How do we know that there is not already artificially intelligent life in Second Life? I mean, once someone gets over the hurtle of creating the artificial life form, all they have to do is create a SL account for it, teach it how to use the viewer program, and let it run wild. Second Life could be used as a testbed; a means of proving the intelligence of the artificial life form. If it can trick the human residents into believing it itself is also human, then you can say with a fair amount of certainty that the life form is sentient.

Posted at 11:56AM on Sep 15th 2007 by Tealc Dagger

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