Chatbots.org Business News

According to Gartner, in a few years 85% of customer-company relationships will be made without human mediation. To reach that goal we need Virtual Avatars to be more intelligent than they are nowadays.

FIONA (Framework for Interactive-services Over Natural-conversational Agents)  is a global online platform for the creation of Intelligent and Interactive Virtual Avatars.

FIONA’s first beta version is going to be launched soon and we are searching for beta testers. If you work on human computer interaction and artificial intelligence, you are 3D Designer, you have TTS or ASR modules, or you create virtual agents, you can become a beta tester. You only have to register in http://www.sparkingtogether.com.

An iPhone 4S buyer is suing Apple for supposed failings in its Siri voice-activated assistant software. The dissatisfied user claims Siri often did not understand what it was being asked to do or would respond with the wrong answer.

In litigation-happy US, these types of class-action consumer suits are common, of course, and the allegations of serious failings in the product have to be taken with a pinch of salt.

We are already in 2012 and for those involved in the industry of chatbots and artificial intelligence it will be an exciting year for sure! Concretely, 2012 has been designated “Alan Turing Year”, commemorating the mathematician, computer pioneer, and code-breaker on the centennial of Turing’s birth.

Originally held at University of Waterloo, the AI Challenge became an annual online event sponsored by Google. The contest attracts computer programmers, whether they are beginners or experts. All they have to do is to create an artificial intelligence multi-player strategy game, in any language, that satisfies several specified assumptions. What challenge is prepared for this year? Can you guess after the image presented below?

Have you ever dreamed of discussing the history of radioactivity with Marie Curie in person? It became possible. Museums, galleries and science centers plan to engage visitors in their exhibits by bringing intelligent avatars which represent historic figures, contemporary personalities or fictional characters.

We are soooo excited to reveal our new companies section showing all leading providers in conversational AI, (3D) animation, speech synthesis and speech recognition and visual biometrics, and an additional Vendor Selector tool to select providers, designed for organizations their buying process!

This companies section will also reveal our advanced business members: Industry leaders who have joined our business program, contributed financially and therefore empowered us to move this industry forward. With their support, we have been able to further develop our role as an Industrial Catalyst, advancing the industry of Intelligent Virtual Characters.

What happens when two chatbots chat? Researchers from
Cornell Creative Machines Lab headed by Professor Hod Lipson at Cornell University have recently submitted this entertaining idea to this year’s Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence. Objective of this competition is to fool 2 or more judges into thinking that a chatbot is a human being.

If you take this course, you will be graded just like Stanford University students, and you can get a certificate matching your skills to the Stanford grading curve. Though online, it is a serious class: 8 homework assignments, 2 timed exams and many hard deadlines. To pass this class, expect to work at least 10 hours per week - Stanford students do all this! Become one of them starting in September 2011.

Blog Post recalling a conversation that Daden’s own chatbot Abi had.

Chatbots.org launches the largest specialized research area on humanlike conversational artificial intelligence in its new 2.7 release on http://www.chatbots.org/research.

We have worked on it for over 18 months, and we are very excited to present the result today: 1,031 academic journals, more than 13,000 universities, 163 books, 327 annual academic events, 475 publishers and loads of academic papers. And the best is: from a content point of view, this is just the start! This area is expected to grow very fast.

We believe that the academic community will benefit greatly from this area. They will get in touch with businesses to set up commercially funded projects, attract talent by profiling themselves in our new university ranking and align themselves with innovative entrepreneurs.

This article will demonstrate what to expect from our new research section; how it all fits into the Chatbots.org scope and where it is heading to.