Digital 'Ghosts' To Guide Students On Campus

Hambone.dk writes "The students at Copenhagen's new IT University will soon be guided by invisible, but talkative digital agents, known as ghosts or Disembodied Location-specific Conversational Agents. The ghosts are to compete amongst themselves for privileges such as better vocabulary or the ability to clone themselves. Ignored ghosts can die out completely. This project is a lot more serious than it sounds at face value - several papers have been published already."

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Big whoop

[stratjakt]

Disembodied Location-specific Conversational Agents.

ELIZA + text to speech + speaker and microphone = "ghost".

They can spaz up the website with promises of artificially sentient beings with real emotions and the ability to learn, but of course thats horseshit.

Re:Nearly-Headless-Nick or Peeves ?

[AGMW]

Oh, I can imagine a lot of things. Here at the department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen there is a running prank called pyxling. It's basically making anagrams of the signs (which have those little lego-like letter bricks).

Boy, you Danes know how to have a good time eh! Rock On!