Showing posts with label chat bot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chat bot. Show all posts

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Adult Chat Bots Advance

Ever since chat bots were first developed, anyone who has thought about the technology for a few minutes usually comes up with the same big application idea: adult sex bots. But as with any bot, creating an adult bot is not as easy as it looks at first sight. Creating a believable bot requires persistence and dedication.

One of the sites where dedication has paid off is VirtualFem.com. Started in 2004, VirtualFem has grown into a sophisticated A.I. chat bot engine. Recently Mike of VirtualFem gave me a guest account to test drive their AIML software. Although I was expecting something rather simplified, I was impressed to find a full AIML development environment inside VirtualFem. According to Mike of VirtualFem, "Our built-in AIML editor has become strong enough that some members are using it to create AIML for other bots/software."

"We also use a state engine in combination with AIML so that we can play videos and responses at appropriate times. We refer to it as a 'front brain' where each girl has custom aiml, states, and videos and then there is a back end which all the girls share the same main AIML."

The VirtualFem bot brains have evolved to contain over 144,000 AIML categories. At that level, the illusion of intelligence becomes starkly convincing. You can check out the VirtualFem product online at http://www.virtualfem.com (WARNING: Site contains adult content).

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Business community for chatbots launched

Business community for chatbots launched

The evolution of chatbots, artificial entities designed to have interesting or entertaining conversations with us; also named 'conversational agents', is now supported by a worldwide community for chatbot developers, affiliated industry and users. Chatbots are getting a lot of attention from businesses right now as they can save costs in customer service centres and are therefore very welcome in the current economic climate. As there was no such business community in the world, Chatbots.org is now filling the gap.

Relevance
Chatbots are not just another hyped technology. They are part of the brand dialogue trend, as outlined in 2005 by futurist Erwin van Lun. Chatbots are today's representation of the growing ability of brands- of organisations - to move away from advertising- the automation of sending messages - towards the automation of listening to individuals. In the future, advertising will disappear and be wholly replaced by Chatbots which cannot be distinguished from real people, representing brands in an (extremely) intelligent conversation. Therefore the 'business news' feature within chatbots.org is demonstrating the evolution of business communication.

Features
Business news is the most important new feature. It will cover news on 'conversational technology', 'human identification' (biometrics for example), 'sensing' (like voice recognition), and 'appearance' (such as holographic projections). Individuals from the participating industry are all allowed to publish news themselves and the community invites professionals to comment on news or start as an editor for Chatbots.org. Furthermore, professionals can use their own page to profile themselves to the outside world.

About Chatbots.org
Chatbots.org was founded by Erwin Van Lun in 2008 and started as a worldwide listing of chatbots. Today, it's mission is 'to be the leading community for chatbot developers, users and affiliate industry on research, technology and innovation driving commercial success for all participants'.

Links and additional information for the media
Business News & Community:
http://www.chatbots.org/conversational

Background information:
http://www.chatbots.org/conversational/agent/welcome_to_chatbots.org_2.0

Brand dialogue trend:
http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/trends/brand_dialogue/

Copyright free images to use in your publications:
http://www.chatbots.org/gallery/

Information about Erwin van Lun: (contact information, including HiRes picture):
http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/erwinvanlun