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| by Noel Sharkey and Amanda Sharkey in Humanoids (2007) |
Robotics with AI is part of a long tradition that has run from ancient times that treated the precursors of robots, the automata, as part of Natural Magic or conjury. Deception is an integral part of AI and robotics; in some ways they form a science of illusion. There are many robot tasks, such as caring for the elderly, minding children, doing domestic chores and being companionable, that involve working closely with humans and so... Read more
| by Włodzisław Duch in Philosophy (2007) |
What is Computational Intelligence (CI) and what are its relations with Artificial Intelligence (AI)? A brief survey of the scope of CI journals and books with “computational intelligence” in their title shows that at present it is an umbrella for three core technologies (neural, fuzzy and evolutionary), their applications, and selected fashionable methods. At present CI has no comprehensive foundations and is more a bag of tricks than a solid branch of science. The change of focus... Read more
| by Marcel Ritschel in Knowledge (2007) |
AI Chat Bots and Digital Assistants are designed to enhance online experiences and to support branding and transaction requirements. The Report defines a problem context related to interactive character interfaces and presents data analyses using activity maps, talk-throughs, personas, and scenarios. Insights based on subject domain research, interviews, electronic feedback, and observed design practices enabled the pairing of a persona with a scenario in order to identify user problems and to set the requirements for a client-centered... Read more
| by Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum and Mitsuru Ishizuka in Emotion, Text recognition, Lexical formulation (2006) |
Till date no computer program has passed the Turing test although even simple conversational programs, socalled “Chatbots”, could make people believe that they are talking to another human being. The main objective of this paper is to identify some shortcomings of existing conversational agents (e.g. Chatbots) and describe our approach to model human-like conversational agent that overcomes those limitations to some extent. Our primary focus is to sense affective information from input sentence(s) by applying... Read more
| by Nils J. Nilsson in Learning, Text recognition, Psychology (2005) |
I claim that achieving real human-level artificial intelligence would necessarily imply that most of the tasks that humans perform for pay could be automated. Rather than work toward this goal of automation by building special-purpose systems, I argue for the development of general-purpose, educable systems that can learn and be taught to perform any of the thousands of jobs that humans can perform. Joining others who have made similar proposals, I advocate beginning with a... Read more
| by Karolina Kuligowska and Mirosława Lasek in Agent's Capabilities, Sales (2005) |
The number of intelligent agents has grown rapidly in the last decade. Communication between user and computer can still be improved thanks to many advanced features of intelligent agents. Virtual assistants, present in e-commerce models, prove to be promising tools for a fruitful cooperation among computer-users. This paper outlines strengths and weaknesses of the intelligent agents according to the Human-Computer Interaction aspect. On the basis of this paper the following slides Intelligent Agents in the Human-Computer... Read more
| by Bob Heller, Mike Procter, Dean Mah, Lisa Jewell and Billy Cheung in Applications, User Client Technology (2005) |
A chatbot named Freudbot was constructed using the open source architecture of AIML to determine if a famous person application of chatbot technology could improve student-content interaction in distance education. Fifty-three students in psychology completed a study in which they chatted with Freudbot over the web for 10 minutes under one of two instructional sets. They then completed a questionnaire to provide information about their experience and demographic variables. The results from the questionnaire indicated... Read more
| by Nick Bostrom in Ethics (2003) |
The ethical issues related to the possible future creation of machines with general intellectual capabilities far outstripping those of humans are quite distinct from any ethical problems arising in current automation and information systems. Such superintelligence would not be just another technological development; it would be the most important invention ever made, and would lead to explosive progress in all scientific and technological fields, as the superintelligence would conduct research with superhuman efficiency.... Read more
| by Ruth Aylett and Michael Luck in Knowledge, Body motion (2000) |
Reearch into virtual environments on the one hand and artificial intelligence and artificial life on the other has largely been carried out by two different groups of people with different preoccupations and interests, but some convergence is now apparent between the two fields. Applications in which activity independent of the user takes place — involving crowds or other agents — are beginning to be tackled, while synthetic agents, virtual humans and computer pets are all areas... Read more
| by N. R. Jennings and M. Wooldridge in Lookup (1998) |
Intelligent agents are a new paradigm for developing software applications. More than this, agent-based computing has been hailed as ‘the next significant breakthrough in software development’, and ‘the new revolution in software’. Currently, agents are the focus of intense interest on the part of many sub-fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. Agents are being used in an increasingly wide variety of applications, ranging from comparatively small systems such as email filters to large, open, complex,... Read more
