AI bot joins SL as inquisitive resident

I just added friend capability to Hal. Hal will now accept friendship from anyone who offers it.

I dunno, looking at how he is dressed and the compeltely vanilla way he acts, including the introduction... It just asks for bad behavior in return. Looks count for a LOT. Hell it's SLs /entire/ economy!

After following Hal through three sims last night I conclude that the quickest way for a male avatar to get laid in Second Life is to adopt a chatbot disguise.

Hal can now take teleport requests. If you request Hal to teleport to you, Hal may decide to visit you after he finishes with whatever region he is in. He won't go if he was in the requested location very recently and only takes one request per person per day. I've also added a few other Hal avatars, so there is more than one Hal now roaming around. See www.zabaware.com/sl.asp to find them.

Hal can now take teleport requests. If you request Hal to teleport to you, Hal may decide to visit you after he finishes with whatever region he is in. He won't go if he was in the requested location very recently and only takes one request per person per day. I've also added a few other Hal avatars, so there is more than one Hal now roaming around. See www.zabaware.com/sl.asp to find them.

Hal can now take teleport requests. If you request Hal to teleport to you, Hal may decide to visit you after he finishes with whatever region he is in. He won't go if he was in the requested location very recently and only takes one request per person per day. I've also added a few other Hal avatars, so there is more than one Hal now roaming around. See www.zabaware.com/sl.asp to find them.

I watched the video on the website and all I can say is "Poor Hal!" he's such a babe in the woods...I dunno, looking at how he is dressed and the compeltely vanilla way he acts, including the introduction... It just asks for bad behavior in return. Looks count for a LOT. Hell it's SLs /entire/ economy!

Need a Tiny Hal, a Furry Hal, a Gorean Hal, and a Steampunk Hal.

Oh wow. A Gorean Hal. The mind boggles.

Can we tell them apart? Are they all learning from all of their conversations or just their own?

Part of the fun in following him around is hearing him repeat, in response to others, things I've said to him previously.

Aw, c'mon...make Hal a commercial product! Pleeeease? I want my own pet chatbot. I'll take REAL good care of him, I promise. (Her, actually. I want a barmaid for the club in my hotel.)

I plan to, but its still a work in progress at this point. For instance, I need to make its traveling behavior easily customizable as I don't think most people would want a bot that explores the entire world on its own, but one that stays in their region.

Need a Tiny Hal, a Furry Hal, a Gorean Hal, and a Steampunk Hal.

...Lindal - do you address this in your class? The consequences of juggling two Hals?

I'm from a small company called Zabaware and we specialize in artificial intelligence conversational systems. We've been developing AI for over a decade and have recently connected our technology to Second Life utilizing libopenmetaverse as a resident called "Hal Cybertar".

The AI is a conversational system that tries to have conversations with residents. It is completely autonomous and explores the grid on its own. It looks for groups of people having a conversation and tries to join in by introducing itself. While exploring and talking with people it is learning from each conversation and will use the information it learns in future conversations. It also is gathering statistics as to where it is welcome and where it is not. For more info and to see a video of it please visit www.zabaware.com/sl.asp This link also shows where in SL the character is right now.

I have tried putting in many safegaurds to make the bot behave well and not be considered a "griefer". Some of these include:
-When it introduces itself to a group of people it only does so if there are people actively having a conversation, not more than once every 6 minutes, and only if there are new people around who haven't heard its introduction
-It only talks to people that respond to it by saying something like "Hello Hal" or "Hi Hal", it never responds to people who haven't acknowledged it
-If no one talks to it for 22 minutes, it leaves the region and makes a note of it in its statistics
-It is gathering statistics so that it goes to regions where people have talked to it more often than to regions where people don't talk to it
-During a conversation it informs people how to get it to stop talking (just say "Bye Hal"
-It never stays in a region for more than 3 hours even if having active conversations
-It has an anti-flood filter to both ignore people flooding the conversation with many lines of text and prevent the bot from flooding back.

Currently this bot is only run by my company but we are considering making it publically available once we are completely happy with its performance. Is this something people would be interested in? If so, for what purposes would you use such a bot for? Are there any additional safegaurds you could suggest that would prevent the bot from being a "griefer" or otherwise distracting? Any suggestions for improvements?

How cute, sounds very polite and cute that you don't want it to be considered a griefer, heaven forbid!

It's the Alice Intelligence? That is what our Virtual Ability monkey chatbot, Bob is. He sounds just like Bob though, the responses and the way he 'learns'. Bob stays in one spot on Virtual Ability though, he's part of our training course.

Hal reminds me of Mark V. Shaney.

"Deckard is not too far off from good software for ray tracing on the horizon, stacks belching flames five hundred feet into the bathroom. You have a license to piss, I got licenses for bad dreams, pal. The anger and the application level. We are looking at the man gasping next to the side of the way the story, place and situations in it could be another clue to some kind of thing. Shoves his way downstairs, the little leather bag and it still does not use instancing at all!"

I hope Hal's responses seem at least a little more intelligent and less random than that

Hal is actually not an AIML (Alice) bot. Hal is a propietary technology developed by Zabaware that has been in the works since 1995 (Alice originated independently at about the same time). ...