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Andy Peart on 12 years, 3 months ago in Agent's perception of humans, Speech recognition, Business News | by
Summary: TV that you talk to? It is not without its flaws...
Every now and then someone writes an article on whether Back to the Future II got its predictions right. Well, judging by the presence of voice activated TVs and remote controls at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year, I think we can add a tick in the box to the TV that you talk to. But as a report by Leo Kelion on the BBC website has pointed out, it is not without its flaws.
Shaun Harkness on 12 years, 5 months ago in Business, Business contests & awards, Business News | by
Summary: MyCyberTwin wins Australian technology showcase award
Aussie artificial intelligence company, MyCyberTwin, has spoken about its recent win at the New South Wales Australian Technology Showcase (ATS) Patron Awards.
Co-founder and chief innovation officer at the company, John Zakos, said MyCyberTwin’s $15,000 prize in the rising star award category would ensure the company’s future success.
Read more about: MyCyberTwin Wins Australian Technology Showcase Patrons Award
Aimee Quemuel on 12 years, 6 months ago in Business, Case Study, Business News | by
Summary: Michelin has set up a new chatbot feature on its website allowing visitors to chat with the famous Michelin Man
Created by VirtuOz, this intelligent animated character appears on the home page of the site, providing a human-like interface between users and the Michelin brand. The Michelin Man is the first world-famous brand icon to interact with users in this way.
Chatting in both English and French, Michelin’s two official languages, and programmed to converse on around 10,000 topics each month, this intelligent virtual agent answers questions about the Michelin Man as well as the company, while also helping visitors to find their way around the site.
Read more about: Michelin sets up online virtual chat with the Michelin Man
Karolina Kuligowska on 12 years, 6 months ago in Agent's Capabilities, Role playing, Clone, Business News | by
Summary: Intelligent avatars teach the history of humanity in museums, science centeres and galleries
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.
Read more about: Intelligent avatars populate museums, galleries and science centers
Jetty van Kooij on 13 years, 1 month ago in Identification of humans, Face recognition, Fingerprint recognition, Speaker recognition, Agent's Expression, Gestures, Business News | by
Summary: AVATAR Kiosk: Interactive biometrics technology assists law enforcement at border crossings and airports
The AVATAR kiosk as being developed by The University of Arizona, is an interactive screening technology which assists law enforcement at border crossings and airports to detect lies and other deceptive behaviours.
When individuals approach the kiosk, they scan their identification, and it detects pupil changes down in the millimetre level and asks a few questions. Border control would step in to work directly with individuals whose behavior is suspicious as flagged by the AVATAR Kiosk.
Read more about: AVATAR Kiosk: Interactive screening technology
Jetty van Kooij on 13 years, 1 month ago in Agent's Expression, Speech synthesis (TTS), Gestures, Body motion, Business News | by
Summary: BIG MAMA is watching you: Intelligent TV incorporates gesture, voice, and image recognition
Imagine a TV that responds to your physical behaviour such as finger pointing, talking and other actions such as picking up a magazine. Basically, it is a TV that watches you via gesture recognition, voice recognition and image recognition and responds accordingly.
Read more about: BIG MAMA is watching you: Intelligent TV responds to gestures
Herb Isenberg on 14 years, 1 month ago in Agent's perception of humans, Text recognition, Research News | by
Summary: Teach intelligent devices how to generate conversational interaction as a Human Being
This paper is about conversation, or how people talk, and the unit of analysis used to understand the organization of conversation, the turn. It is a product of empirical research and identifies the basic unit of analysis for analyzing and generating natural conversational interaction. It represents a new paradigm, an entirely new way to measure and quantify conversational patterns that are culture, language and gender independent.
It is one of a series of papers that will be published. It is the first paper leading up to the development of Natural Conversational Technology. A long list of potential applications will also be published, such as. how to teach intelligent devices to engage in conversational interaction as a human being or how to do opinion mining from dynamic text.
Jetty van Kooij on 14 years, 3 months ago in Business, Market research, Business News | by
Summary: Virtual Agents: It's showtime! According to a Forrester report, online consumers are craving self-service options
Efficient online self-service is essential for online retailers-particularly since 57% of U.S. online consumers say they are very likely to abandon an online purchase if they cannot find quick answers to their questions, says a new Forrester Research Inc. report.
Virtual agents represent an efficient option to bolster a company’s self-service options, particularly since they reduce customer service operational costs by deflecting agent-assisted costs because they lower the number of customers who call a contact center. Virtual agents-typically with a digitalized human appearance-are software services that provide automated assistance by simulating a two-way conversation in which they can help customers do anything from perform online tasks to locate online information.
Erwin van Lun on 14 years, 10 months ago in Chatbots.org news, Chatbots.org News | by
Summary: Awards for chatbots: Loebner, Chatterbox Challenge, Machine Intelligence, who knows more?
As you probably know, the Turing Test is a proposal for a test of a machine’s ability to demonstrate intelligence. The test celebrates its 100th birthday in 2012.
The most prestigious prize based on the Turing test, is obviously the Loebner Prize, started in 1990 by Hugh Loebner (who’s still passionate about chatbots).
The Loebner Prize however, is not the only prize in this area. There seem to be a few more prizes to win in the field of creating artificial intelligent and conversational life. For Chatbots.org we’re trying to create a list of all of them (and to list all the results on the site).