Automated Avatars in Second Life

[LivingView]

how do i make my avatar automated to talk to people

[taiamon]

i remember back in late 08 or very early 09 i met a bot, and what ever i said to him he answered straight as i said something, was so weird and cool, i asked for lindens and he said what you need em for, sl was so much better back then

[dadenmedia]

We have text to speech workin gon web versions, works in SL too but a 5 sec delay roughly. SpeechRec is still rough even on the web, so will let that mature a bit. The next version not only has Nickname type ability but also remembers you, what you takd about, where, and whether she likes you or not. Yes we'd love to do something more consumer orientated in due course, just a question of time and money - as always!

[JessicaRaven]

and lastly what plans do you have making something like this available for the average consumer rather than a buisiness? (I.e. I can see this as ideal progression of the babies that people have, have a NPC child avatar they can take care of and raise)

[JessicaRaven]

looked this up again reading your recent blog post about incorporating motivation and maslow's hierarchy, got a couple of questions, 1) are you planning on incorporating speech function? (i.e. a text to speech and a voice recognition?) 2) are you planning on incorporating a way that she can associate a nickname with an avatar (so she's not calling you by your full name all the time)

[XioJester]

are any of these bots still in-world? I can't find any.

[dadenmedia]

@XioJester Halo is undergoing a bit of an overhaul at the moment but is sometimes around and can be run up on request. Should be in 24/7 again from August, if not before.

[XioJester]

@dadenmedia nice, I'm looking forward to getting to see this first hand!

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[kaffeetrichter]

Awesome, pretty cool guys.

[fogglee]

NO dont put computers on second life thats what makes it cool, i dont want to say 'yeah evreyone on second life is another person on a computer somewhere else in the world' and then they say what about her 'and i dont want to say exept her!'

[pokemon068]

whoa that interesting.

[asianprincess21]

this is awesome!!! thanks hope to learn more...

[dadenmedia]

Bots are available form us, but they are offered as part of a design & build package rather than off the shelf. Annual licence starts at £1000pa, £500pa for academic use. Contact us at Daden for more info.

[Trishlicious]

Where will the product be available for sale?

[LoisPaine]

Ah, I see. The computer is controlling the avatar...

[dadenmedia]

It's a commercial product and not available for free download I'm afraid

[cod386]

but can we meet her in second life to interact?

[dadenmedia]

Abi Carver who uses pretty much the same brain is usually on our sim - Daden Prime - the whole time, and Halo will be up full time in a month or so

[mitchatwar]

thats awesome but where do i download it

[DJKelly08]

Trully amazing. :D And British :D

[IADaveMark]

Well done. AI is one thing, Knowledge Representation is a whole different animal.

[annotoole]

Finally an NPC for Second Life. A bot that is not a waste of system resources. People can officially stop saying I am full of it when I say such NPC technology does, in fact, now exist in Second Life.

We'll be needing various weapon equipped monster NPC units for game play in the future. Daden has the lead on such potential revenue streams now. Good job.

[RobbieKiama]

amazing job

[GwynethLlewelyn]

Excellent work! It was really just a question of time until researchers would do something like this — congratulations on actually going ahead and doing it!

[VintFalken]

Pretty impressive! :)

[ChanceAbattoir]

Great.

[GeoMeek]

Great work indeed i do enjoy people that look ahead. ;-)

[edopaulus]

Nice. I guess if she looked more like a tamagochi or some kind of pet-like creature, we humans could relate to it more easily.

[Bettinatizzy]

Fascinating work and well explained.

[reBangDesign]

Nicely done.