Rity is the ghost in the machine: an autonomous agent that can transfer itself into desktop computers, PDAs, servers and robotic avatars, and adapt and evolve like a genetic organism. As researchers go from place to place, they are captured and recognized by a network of cameras in the building, allowing Rity to follow them from computer to computer.The “sobot” can upload itself into a mobile robot — a simpler cousin of HanSaRam called MyBot — and follow Kuppuswamy from room to room on its servo-controlled wheels, fetching objects for the researcher with its mechanical arms. If it sees Kuppuswamy sit in front of his office PC, Rity can abandon MyBot like a husk and slip into the desktop machine, to better put itself at its human master’s disposal.

when i was in school, ai was all about embodiment. now we have a more fluid, body-snatching approach. an agent following you around, without being limited to one manifestation, is both very scifi and very interesting

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