The Virtual Teacher

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers from Illinois and Florida are developing a networking system which will create virtual representations of real people to improve our knowledge. They will use artificial intelligence and natural language processing software to enable us to interact with these avatars. The goal of the project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is to give us the possibility to interact with these virtual representations as if they were the actual person, complete with the ability to understand and answer questions. We should see the results at the beginning of 2008 — if the researchers succeed."

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Re:Why does everyone hate Roland Piquepaille?

[heinousjay]

It's not that understandable, actually. He wasn't spamming, he was summarizing articles people found interesting. There's just a contingent of people on Slashdot are grouchy about anyone making money. Most of us don't really care if the guy gets a buck or two.

For that matter, how is it less objectionable for Slashdot itself to make ad money? They don't even bother finding the articles, or doing anything useful with them in any way. Roland at least provided something for the clicks. All we get here is inane commentary which, lets face it, is just a time sink for those of us who can't find anything better to do.