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Microsoft Shows Off 'Milo' Virtual Human
adeelarshad82 writes "At TED Global in Oxford, Microsoft released a video showing off its 'virtual human' technology, named Milo, designed for the company's hands-free Xbox 360 motion controller called Kinect. Milo is built to react to people's emotions, body movements, and voice, allowing players to interact with the virtual character. It was built using artificial intelligence developed by Lionhead studios, along with undisclosed technology from Microsoft. According to games designer Peter Molyneux, the game exploits psychological techniques to make a person feel that Milo is real. Each Milo character will be unique because every player's interaction with the virtual character will sculpt the type of virtual person Milo will evolve to become."
Oh boy! Clippy comes to the living room!
Why won't I love ME? Because it was a terrible operating system. Why do you ask?
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
Not only is it cheesy (and INCREDIBLY old news), the video in TFA is a fake. Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFAK8ubYtZE
1) Walk around naked in Milo's presence. How would he react? Is Milo into women or men?
2) Drink beer in the presence of Milo. Would Milo care for some and if yes, can Milo become drunk?
3) Mess with Milo's logic.
4) Scare Milo by saying that it was created by Microsoft and therefore is evil.
5) Teach Milo to fart.
6) Tell Milo he is a pirated version.
7) Convert Milo to a religion.
Microsoft couldn't get basic speech to text to work reliably
My thoughts exactly.
Probably straight prerendered video.
Of course all I could think about when he was on the doc was "Wow he's annoying, I want to shove him off into the pond."
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
What are you talking about. The AI was awesome. Once I started rewarding my ape for Lighting its shit on fire, and also rewarding it for throwing its shit at villagers, it put 1+1 together and innovated unholy projectile flame turds.
I only wish my horse on red read redemption would come up with that instead of "jumping of cliffs and dying" :(
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
People might think it's funny when their AI friend has a funny accent, but it's cheaper to outsource these things to India! I assure you people will be amazed and perplexed by how wonderful this AI is, but maybe curious why it has an hourly cost....
The purpose of ME was to make XP look good, just as the purpose of Vista was to make 7 look good.