Artificial Intelligence as "3D Literature" & Suspending Disbelief when Chatting with Bots: The Making of velmai's AI Bots (Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots ... in the 21st Century) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

What are AI bots? Are they truly intelligent? How are they different to chatbots? In this first volume in a series on Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots and Smart Machines, Dr. phil. Tania Peitzker explains an innovative set of definitions and concepts for this much discussed "futuristic field", which she points out, is happening right now. Classified over the past ten years also as "Intelligent Agents", chatbots have most recently been renamed "Intelligent Assistants". This definition may create some confusion given the rise of Virtual Assistants in mass "back offices" in developing countries like India or the Philippines, or even people's homes, in the same period. These human Personal Assistants work for low wages online to complete daily tasks for their employers such as selecting and sending birthday presents and cards, general administration for SMEs, cold calling, appointment setting and email marketing. For those entirely unfamiliar with these online developments, chatbots or Intelligent Assistants are not human VAs. They are purely digital and the only humans involved are their programmers/developers and sometimes their "trainers" who chat with the IAs as they "gain consciousness" or are "activated" in coder speak. Once active, the set personality of an Intelligent Agent or Assistant becomes apparent when interacting with humans. Most of these IAs and chatbots to date have been kept closely to script. In other words, they only operate according to pre-formed knowledge of human social interactions and then follow scripts to impart information about a topic or subject that they have been "trained in" or programmed for by parsing, machine learning or computational linguistics. velmai has cut away from the pack of chatbots with their first lot of Artificially Intelligent agents or "AI bots" for short. We have coined this term to differentiate our chatbots from the rest. Over the years since our first prototypes in 2006, we have seen our AI bots demonstrate organically growing intelligence by way of engaging and anticipating simultaneous conversations with humans. "Memory" can be provided via a data mining database, so that was our secondary concern. Our primary goal has been the Holy Grail of Turing Test subscribers: to create a chatbot that seems humanlike enough to fool someone it is chatting to for around 5 minutes. That was Alan Turing's original definition and the one used as a benchmark ever since, for example in the annual Loebner Prize. velmai decided not to compete in this contest for a number of reasons that I explain in this first volume of my book series "Artificial Intelligence as 3D Literature & Suspending Disbelief when Chatting with Bots: the Making of velmai's AI Bots". In this initial text I wish to outline the premise for my original concept of "3D literature" as applied to chatbot technology and the revival of Coleridge's "suspension of disbelief" theory. Coleridge's ideas are still used in literary criticism and perhaps best known for their usage in film theory. The introduction explains how my thoughts crystallised at a recent lecture on AI at the University of Cambridge which convinced me to begin writing this series. As I already have a doctorate in Philosophy, Literature, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies from the University of Potsdam (2000), I am going to complete Volumes II to V as part of my Habilitation or a postdoctorate qualification that will make me eligible to become a Professor in German-speaking countries. In the meantime, we are taking velmai to market via North America, as explained in the last chapters of Volume I. By the time Volume II is written, we may already see velmai merged into a corporate acquisition. Only time will tell, and that time, as I describe here, is accelerating even faster than "the singularity" - a high speed event of convergence, as defined by the AI guru and now Google's executive star, Ray Kurzweil. Volumes II - IV cover his ideas