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CASSIE=virtual Eve?

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Someone over on CGTalk posted a link to a University of Buffalo news story about a “self-aware” computational agent being incorporated into virtual reality.

We started thinking, ‘What happens if you put a powerful artificial intelligence system — which is what Stu has developed — together with drama and stories?

Not sure why they’re focusing on an interactive “movie” version to be honest, since I don’t see any need to have a narrative structure of any kind. I can’t think of a better drama than real life.

There’s a couple of QT videos to watch as well. Might check out the second one – halfway through it starts to get interesting. I can imagine just programming a particular set of behaviors into an AI and letting it do it’s own thing. What could be more interesting than watching an AI develop (and perhaps multiply) in cyberspace?

Fido, sit. Fido, fetch. Fido, infiltrate and detonate.

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Image of Boston Dynamics BigDog Robot

Read something today that reminded me of this, the first paragraph from William Gibson’s novel Count Zero:

They set a slamhound on Turner’s trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.

Having read that, now take a look at this link (courtesy of Engadget) on what the mad scientists at Darpa are trying to create.

[Note: Links went dead, so here’s a Wikipedia entry – BigDog]

SkyNet Rising

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skynetRisingOne of my favorite sites (obviously), MIT’s Technology Review, has an article on “The Ascent of the Robotic Attack Jet“. But don’t let the “robotic” part fool you – it’s really quite alot about the software, hardware and interaction design necessary for a person to remotely control those nasty little buggers. I’d posted this on the Core forum, but it didn’t seem to be of interest to anyone. I’m feeling a little like Kyle Reese being interrogated by the police in The Terminator – no one will listen. “You can’t stop it!” Don’t say you weren’t warned.