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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. I'm Afraid by camsbad · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YAH !! First Poster, but i am a little afraid of ghosts ...

  2. Re:Nearly-Headless-Nick or Peeves ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually our systems are designed to catch people who aren't terrorists, so you're doomed.

  3. Re:Enforcement of speech codes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That wasn't even a -good- troll. If you're complaining about the 'phallocentric white patriarchy', you could at least use an ebonic vocabulary. *sigh*