Chatbots.org Business News

In a recent issue of Technology Review Magazine published by MIT listed Intelligent Virtual Agents as one of the 10 emerging technologies of 2009. Intelligent virtual agents are able to interact intelligently with users, reduce support costs, encourage self-service and customer loyalty, and serve as a branding tool for the enterprise. They provide a unique, interactive and personal way for users to get answers and assistance on your website, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This press release seems to be sponsored by Botégo.

A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that can kill autonomously.

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve appointed Jetty Van Kooij as our primary editor of Chatbots.org.

Alabot an Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Natural Language Processing (NLP) company based in the UK and India, now has been funded by a Malaysia Based Innovation Fund and also secured a contract with one of the large telcos. The application telcos want is an NLP AI guided chat bot for their ringtones and wallpaper properties.

Artificial Solutions, the leader company on Customer Service Optimization, announced today the launch of its new and improved website at www.artificial-solutions.com. This new site is the result of a period of analysis, design, programming and collaboration to offer a fresh interface, significantly improved navigation and a better user experience.

As you probably know, the Turing Test is a proposal for a test of a machine’s ability to demonstrate intelligence. The test celebrates its 100th birthday in 2012.

The most prestigious prize based on the Turing test, is obviously the Loebner Prize, started in 1990 by Hugh Loebner (who’s still passionate about chatbots).

The Loebner Prize however, is not the only prize in this area. There seem to be a few more prizes to win in the field of creating artificial intelligent and conversational life. For Chatbots.org we’re trying to create a list of all of them (and to list all the results on the site).

We are looking for a freelance English editor (4 hours per week).

As we have quite ambitious plans with Chatbots.org, we need an enthusiastic native English editor to edit text and write new articles who can grow with us to facilitate the fast growing community of chatbot developers, affiliate industry and users.