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Erwin van Lun on 11 years, 2 months ago in Chatbots.org News | by
Summary: This is a proposal for using definitions for #virtualhuman #virtualagent and #virtualassistant
We’ve had million of discussions on this topic. More than 160 synonyms nowadays! We are so creative .!
What about this definition:
A virtual human is a computer generated human simulation with artificial intelligence. A virtual human can have a CG human body, and CG voice and computer empowered senses.Virtual humans can be applied in various domains such as education, marketing, branding, training & sales.
A virtual agent is a virtual human acting on behalf of an organization, communicating with potentially millions of stakeholders
A brand agent is a virtual human acting of behalf of a brand, communicating with potentially millions of stakeholders
A virtual assistant is a virtual agent specialized in service.
A chatbot is a virtual human specialised in social chat on a wide variety of topics.
Read more about: Definition virtual human, virtual agent, virtual assistant
Erwin van Lun on 12 years, 4 months ago in Business, Investments, Research News | by
Summary: A $1.2 million Defense University Research Instrumentation Program grant from the Department of Defense Office
A $1.2 million Defense University Research Instrumentation Program grant from the Department of Defense Office of Naval Research and Army Research Office.
Five UCF professors were awarded grants for equipment out of more than 700 proposals sent in by academic institutions nationwide, two of them immediately relevant to the field of virtual humans: Mingjie Lin, assistant professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science, requested $201,500 for high-performance computer and robotic training equipment, and Gregory Welch, research professor in the Institute for Simulation and Training requested $281,400 for a physical-virtual human-robot interaction system;
“We are trying to break free from the monitor and bring some of it out of the screen physically in front of you,” said Welch, who is working on a “Sensorium” for a physical-virtual avatar. “Have human-shaped robots change their appearance, behavior and their shape in a way that allows them to be flexible.”
The research could yield a physical-virtual human, Welch said, that could move its arms and face and even give you a smile.
Read more about: Million funding University Research Programs on Virtual Humans
Erwin van Lun on 12 years, 5 months ago in Agent identity, Looks, Research News | by
Summary: Soon we can expect tools to model #virtualhumans having #ai dialogues with us. This is a predecessor
Check out the video. Just one of the tools to model anatomical virtual humans. Soon, we’ll be able to have conversations with virtual humans, while ‘undressing’ them virtually, first by taking of their cloths, which is obviously hilarious on its own, but then also remove their skin, and strip their organs. We only need to turn off the ‘pain’ emotion, because else the virtual human would respond like a human who is scalped…
Karolina Kuligowska on 12 years, 11 months ago in Business News | by
Summary: Ford uses Digital Child model in virtual crash-test dummies
Crash-test dummies constitute humanoid test devices used in simulated vehicle collisions. For many years those anthropomorphic devices were physical dummies of adults and children. Now begins the era for dummies to become virtual. They are digitalized similarly to avatars, and biologically modelled as any virtual physiological human.
Read more about: Digital Child in virtual crash-test dummies
Karolina Kuligowska on 13 years, 2 months ago in Business, Tools & Products, Business News | by
Summary: Google Body Browser provides a free online 3D virtual human model
Google Labs has released a free tool that is familiarizing Internet users with the construction of the human body. It allows you to see the detailed structure of every organ, search for muscles and peel back anatomical layers.
Read more about: Discover 3D virtual human body with Google Body Browser
Karolina Kuligowska on 13 years, 3 months ago in State of the Art, Research News | by
Summary: Chatbots.org presents virtual humans technology as it stands
The virtual humans industry is growing very fast, as predicted the futurist Erwin van Lun and independent research companies such as Gartner or CCM Benchmark. Nevertheless, many advanced research projects, 3D human design methods or modeling techniques are not commonly known. Therefore, we would like to present three extraordinary state of the art examples of humanlike conversational artificial intelligence. They are expected to be adopted soon by the virtual humans industry.
Read more about: State of the Art in Humanlike Conversational AI, Part I
Karolina Kuligowska on 13 years, 3 months ago in Agent identity, Personality, Life experience, State of the Art, Research News | by
Summary: Virtual humans being interviewed by mental health clinicians
Conversational virtual humans are nowadays applied to the field of neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology. The technology has evolved to a point where researchers may begin developing mental health applications that make use of virtual reality patients. Human patients with acute neurological illnesses are often confused and unable to cooperate with clinicians during medical consultations. Imagine a simulated training with virtual humans having real mental disorders, willing to talk to their doctors, and sharing their emotions!
Karolina Kuligowska on 13 years, 3 months ago in Agent identity, Personality, Agent's Processing, Emotion, Human's perception of Agent, Emotion, State of the Art, Research News | by
Summary: Virtual agent that expresses its own opinions and is a sensitive listener
Virtual human Spike has its own beliefs and values. Additionally, it exhibits rude, pessimistic and confrontational behavior. Even a very cheerful person is not able to convince this virtual agent to chill out, relax or assimilate optimistic outlook. Would you like that Spike became your conversational friend?
Karolina Kuligowska on 13 years, 6 months ago in Business, Events, Business News | by
Summary: What happens if virtual world becomes your first life?
Beginning from Friday, 6th May 2011, Warsaw hosts eight edition of a documentary film festival named Planete Doc Film Festival. I participate in it intensively - I bought tickets for 10 movies! On Saturday I have seen the movie: Life 2.0., and I am very impressed by this film and its story. It is about people that live their everyday life into a virtual online world Second Life.
Read more about: Life 2.0, Work 2.0, Death 2.0 - when virtual world becomes your first life
Erwin van Lun on 13 years, 7 months ago in Business, Market research, Business News | by
Summary: 161 synonyms for chat bot, virtual assistant, -human or -agent. Whatever rocks your boat!
What is the perfect term for those seemingly intelligent ‘things’, which are popping up everywhere, and which feel more ‘natural’ as time goes by?
Well, we have found 161 synonyms (161!!! No typo!!).
As the leading business and research community in humanlike conversational artificial intelligence, we hope to increase understanding of this field, to provoke discussion and to initiate discussion on standardization of this huge list of different terms, some of them with slightly different implications but mostly genuine synonyms.
We are introducing the most popular, excellent candidate terms to be adopted by the industry and those synonyms which are really eye catching or controversial, and we will just list the remaining synonyms.