Daden Limited shows of the advancing knowledge and possibilities of automated avatars in Second Life in this 10 minutes machinima. From “Who wrote The Stone Diaries?” (info fetched on Amazon), “What is a comet?” (info from Wikipedia), “What’s on BBC tonight?” to “Where is the closest seat?”, the female automated avatar can answer all. The last one she can answer because she has knowledge of her surroundings. She even answers human-style, in directions and meters, not in coordinates. ;)

With an “emotional alert database” built in, she’s pretty allergic to snakes. Removal of a snake will lead to joyful clapping, so do rabbits. She can learn to dislike items in Second Life that cause damage to her, and love those that could give her cash. (I’m not going to wonder if that goes for avatars too, and we’ll soon can expect the first “Daden Limited ft. SexGen automated Second Life Escort”. ;)) Do you tell her to be “inquisitive”, then she’ll click things in her surroundings to learn about them. This Altair automated avatar can also hand out inventory and accept it. Impressive machinima show! :)

Showing Daden Limited’s Halo automated avatar being put through her paces. This is a recording of the demo they gave at the BCS AI Special Interest Group conference in December, and includes a demo of the emotion work Daden Limited has been doing with the University of Wolverhampton. Watch on YouTube.

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence, automated avatar, avatar, chatbots, daden limited, SLinovation

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