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An AI 4-Year-Old In Second Life

Posted by kdawson on from the currents-and-eddies dept.

schliz notes a development out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where researchers have successfully created an artificially intelligent four-year-old capable of reasoning about his beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches human children his age. The technology, which runs on the institute's supercomputing clusters, will be put to use in immersive training and education scenarios. Researchers envision futuristic applications like those seen in Star Trek's holodeck."

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  1. duplicate! by ProfBooty · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/13/1914251 yesterday!

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  2. And in other news, Eliza... by Nexus7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just yesterday, it was in the news that Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of the first such program, Eliza, had died. Eliza's interaction with real people troubled many.

    News article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23615538/