Meet Edd Hifeng, AI powered Second Life avatar

Monday, May 19th, 2008

It had to happen at some point, and now an AI powered avatar is being tested within the Second Life virtual world by its creators, researchers at the Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Laboratory. According to reports, Edd Hifeng has a mental age of about 4 years and is capable of only basic AI reasoning. As such he can engage in simple conversations such as where are you from, but only if the question is put in English and even then only if it has previously been translated into a mathematical logic so that Edd understands it. Not exactly cutting edge of AI is it?

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