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Digital 'Ghosts' To Guide Students On Campus

Posted by timothy on from the my-school-had-undead-staffers-ahead-of-time dept.

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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  1. Enforcement of speech codes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is fantastic. These ghosts can help enforce and detect violations of campus speech codes. The rights of minorities who are oppressed by the phallocentric white patriarchy will be protected.

  2. Big whoop by stratjakt · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.

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    I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
  3. Re:Nearly-Headless-Nick or Peeves ? by AGMW · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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!

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    Eclectic beats from Leeds, UK
    handmadehands.co.uk
  4. Re:M$ Word Paperclip anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, their stupidity is.

  5. Blank page? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The page comes up blank. When I looked at the source, it appeared to have no content other than some embedded 'object'.

    Its called HTML people. Learn it. Write it. If you can't, then youve no business trying to make websites.