From owner-cse575-fa07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Sep 13 11:04:26 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.buffalo.edu [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l8DF4QcE004208 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:04:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (coldfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.89]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id l8DF46wL092439 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:04:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 15598 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2007 15:04:06 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 13 Sep 2007 15:04:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 12954 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2007 15:04:05 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 13 Sep 2007 15:04:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 6885 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2007 15:04:03 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 13 Sep 2007 15:04:03 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 2277327 for CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:04:03 -0400 Delivered-To: cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 5523 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2007 15:03:58 -0000 Received: from mailscan3.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.135) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 13 Sep 2007 15:03:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 29277 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2007 15:03:57 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 13 Sep 2007 15:03:57 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l8DF3vZA004195; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:03:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l8DF3vsL004194; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:03:57 -0400 (EDT) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200709131503.l8DF3vsL004194@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:03:57 -0400 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: Introduction to Cognitive Science From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: Online worlds to be AI incubators Comments: cc: snerg@cse.Buffalo.EDU To: CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.2/4264/Thu Sep 13 02:06:05 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 1019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Online worlds to be AI incubators ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:20:49 +0100 | To: rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU | From: poornima | Seemed a bit relevant to what we're discussing in class...and to the | Virtual AI work in SNeRG. | | ** Online worlds to be AI incubators ** | Artificial intelligences could soon be living and learning inside | online worlds such as Second Life. | < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/6992613.stm > By the way, the "virtual AI" work that Poornima mentioned concerns using our AI knowledge representation, reasoning, and acting system to provide the "mind" for characters in interactive, virtual-reality dramas. This work, a joint project of faculty and students in the SNePS Research Group and the Department of Media Study, is described at: Intermedia Performance Studio http://ips.buffalo.edu/