Comments | kateamdahl: Fairies are People Too! Or They *Ought* to Be

kateamdahl

Fairies are People Too! Or They Ought to Be

Sep 08, 2008 13:50

So there's a company now developing prototypes of very simple artificial intelligences who can do a kind of limited range of things in Second Life - avatars who can show you the way to something, respond to keywords, notice you, greet you, and things like that. (Thanks for mentioning this, Hamlet Au ( Read more... )

fairy, bots, faerie, second life

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No People Cues anonymous September 8 2008, 18:49:54 UTC

I had someone visit me at the Lighthouse in Cowell one afternoon while I was working on something at my desk. They chatted with me for a bit and then had the g'al to ask me if I was an NPC! I guess I need to brush up on my people skills.

Onward and Upward!

Salazar Jack
The Lighthouse
Cowell (115, 29)
The Forest of Kahruvel

seticat September 8 2008, 19:14:15 UTC

I wandered over and checked out their website. On the product page, they list two seperate 'versions'for 'rent' in SL: actor and crowd. The info for 'crowd' reads: "Crowd - Wander without interacting with visitors. - Your island is alive and welcoming".

So, you pay money to rent 'live' bodies to make your site look good. All I'm seeing here is something that's going to slow the grid even more for the rest of us who are actually 'live' on the grid.

Bad Fairyverse! No Biscuit!

faerie_h September 9 2008, 05:12:34 UTC

I feel a protest coming! Faerie-guerilla warfare!

Let's invade their sim and pretend to be fairyverse bots too - only baaad bots.

kateamdahl September 9 2008, 12:53:15 UTC

*Kate has a laughing fit.*

It's a date!

Wow, actually, I didn't think of that...bots can pretend to be people, and people can pretend to be bots...Its a mixed up muddled up shook up world!

Bots not outlawed anonymous September 9 2008, 21:06:02 UTC

If I recall correctly, the Lindens have said that 'bots in general aren't against the ToS unless they're actually used for something bad. Ripping content and chatspamming probably count as bad. Being generally creepy at the conceptual level probably doesn't. :) I can't find the article right now (it was awhile back), but I recall a quote from someone who was working on bots saying that he'd asked some Linden(s) and been told this "as long as you aren't using them in a ToS-violating way" answer. Don't know if that's changed at all, and wish I could find the original...