Will artificial intelligence invade Second Life?
Popular culture is filled with different notions of what artificial intelligence should or will be like. There’s the all-powerful Skynet from the “Terminator” movies, “Star Wars“-style androids, HAL from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the classic sentient computer program, carrying on a witty conversation through a computer terminal. Soon, we may have to add another to the list. In September 2007, a software company called Novamente, along with the Electric Sheep Company, a producer of add-ons for virtual worlds, announced plans to release artificial intelligences (AI) into virtual worlds like the ultra-popular “Second Life.” Video Game Image Gallery Novamente’s “intelligent virtual agents” would use online games and virtual worlds as a development zone, where they will grow, learn and develop by interacting with humans.
