[Freddy]

Had a look at the Hanson Robotics site and was very impressed.  That little Zeno toy looks like a winner and Einstein's head, face and expressions were really good.  There seems to be a lot of people working on this kind of thing, it's a little like a race - which may mean we will see the technology sooner than we think.  They're all trying to amaze us !

[wgb14]

I just got an email from the company confirming what Art has been saying. Their project is alive and they are trying to integrate it into other products. I think we will here from them very soon. Again many thanks art an amazing finding!!!!!!

[jpp]

http://www.ichato.com/ chatbot is quite neat. smart and fun!​

We had a topic some while back about which chatbot we all thought was best.

I witnessed a conversation today, unscripted between a program and its creator.

The program is called Silvia and the programmer is Leslie Spring. The program
is written in C# (C-Sharp) and practically blows away every other chat program
I've seen to date. The program breaks down the user's sentence into conceptual
and contextual meanings. It seems to be a multi layered system with some
ephemeral and some long term memory, yet manages to hold a very convincing
and topical conversation.

The author plans on using the software in toys first before venturing into more
data critical ventures which makes sense. Recall the Super Toy, Teddy in the
movie AI? Well...perhaps something akin to that.

Don't call asking if you can buy it because it isn't for sale at this time. It is rumored
that it will port to Windows, Mac and Linux OS's and Leslie hopes it might also
find a home in a variety of portable devices as well.

Again, I was really excited to see this one in action and I still believe that this is the
best chatbot I've seen!!


Check it out:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19403/?a=f