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U-M, IBM Partner on Advanced Conversational Computing System
Released: 14-Jan-2016 12:15 PM EST
Source Newsroom: University of Michigan more news from this source
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Newswise — ANN ARBOR—In an effort to help solve one of the grand challenges of artificial intelligence, the University of Michigan and IBM have launched a $4.5 million collaboration to develop a new class of conversational technologies that will enable people to interact more naturally and effectively with computers.
In Project Sapphire, IBM and the U-M Artificial Intelligence Lab will develop a cognitive system that functions as an academic adviser for undergraduate computer science and engineering majors at the university. The system will allow researchers to explore how smart machines interact with people in goal-driven dialogues.

In other words they going to try to make a chatbot. You can call it a conversational agent , Conversational Computing System or what it really is a chatbot. New names for old technology.

[ivan.moony]

It could be a start for a new kind of AIML. Maybe they will come up with something more intelligent than the current AIML tech.