Adam Brokken’s also working to make Social a fully-realized artificial intelligence, a creature that can better pass the Turing test. “I am also working on a method to have the bot remember conversations, adding more animations based on responses, etc. Whether he will ever live up to his last name, time will tell.” (That is to say, this.)

Adam recognizes the controversies that have swirled around reverse engineered avatars. “I know there has been much drama concerning ‘bots’ in Second Life, and they still do give some ill effects such as texture spamming. I myself have been hit a few times.

NPC are coming to SL. luis called my attention to this: basically eliza in a new package. based on AIML, pretty much the standard these days for AI chatterbots

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