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AGENTS
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web
The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics...
Robert B. Doorenbos, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Brick by brick: iterating interventions to bridge the achievement gap with virtual peers
We lay out one strand of a continuing investigation into the development of a virtual peer to help children learn to use “school English” and “school-ratified science talk...
Emilee Rader, Margaret Echelbarger, Justine Cassel...
AGI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
An Integrative Methodology for Teaching Embodied Non-Linguistic Agents, Applied to Virtual Animals in Second Life
A teaching methodology called Imitative-Reinforcement-Corrective (IRC) learning is described, and proposed as a general approach for teaching embodied non-linguistic AGI systems. I...
Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Nil Geisweiller, M...
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A pragmatic path toward endowing virtually-embodied AIs with human-level linguistic capability
— Current work is described wherein simplified versions of the Novamente Cognition Engine (NCE) are being used to control virtual agents in virtual worlds such as game engines an...
Ben Goertzel
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...