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Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]

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Re: Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]

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Post by chadscira »

new299 wrote: post #13
Animats wrote: post #12

There have been games with NPCs smarter than that. There have been text adventures with sentence understanding at that level. It's a cute demo, but calling it a "living and conversing agent" is way too much. "Mario, exit the game." "Do you really want to exit the game?" So not impressed. On the speech front, there is now an automated telemarketing agent which is about as smart as most script-driven human telemarketer…

The telemarketing robots that are scripted well enough to continually deny that they're robots are somehow the scariest/most impressive for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRDMy7O62o

I had no idea they were using this type of tech already, the second call is so smooth.

Re: Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]

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Post by SG- »

new299 wrote: post #19
SG- wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sounds like Lenny which is an anti telemarketer SIP bot you can forward calls to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5IKbFATKLo

This is amazing. I wonder if anyone has done something similar for email spam.

if you're interested in more of these calls (some are quite funny) there's an entire reddit dedicated to it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/

Re: Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]

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Post by wodenokoto »

Animats wrote: post #12

There have been games with NPCs smarter than that. There have been text adventures with sentence understanding at that level. It's a cute demo, but calling it a "living and conversing agent" is way too much. "Mario, exit the game." "Do you really want to exit the game?" So not impressed. On the speech front, there is now an automated telemarketing agent which is about as smart as most script-driven human telemarketer…

> "Mario, exit the game." "Do you really want to exit the game?" So not impressed.

This depends on how the response is generated. If it's a script, then of course there is nothing impressive about it, but if parts of the system can recognize importance in action and generate a sentence that asks for confirmation for important actions then it is a completely different ballgame.

> On the speech front, there is now an automated telemarketing agent which is about as smart as most script-driven human telemarketers.

Samantha west is human operated. Some dude is just playing back prerecordings that hopefully fit the conversation. It has absolutely nothing to do with AI.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/17/robot-telemarketer-saman...

Re: Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]

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Post by larrydag »

Animats wrote: post #12

There have been games with NPCs smarter than that. There have been text adventures with sentence understanding at that level. It's a cute demo, but calling it a "living and conversing agent" is way too much. "Mario, exit the game." "Do you really want to exit the game?" So not impressed. On the speech front, there is now an automated telemarketing agent which is about as smart as most script-driven human telemarketer…

I think most of these comments are missing the point. As I understood the video they are trying to create an AI that plays the game. The AI will respond to its experiences as it learns about the game. The initial Mario state is that it knows nothing then as it learns its environment it will adapt to figure out how to play.

This seems like a pretty bold project. I'm curious if they can get the AI to win the game.

Re: Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]

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Post by amelius »

SG- wrote: post #18
new299 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The telemarketing robots that are scripted well enough to continually deny that they're robots are somehow the scariest/most impressive for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRDMy7O62o

sounds like Lenny which is an anti telemarketer SIP bot you can forward calls to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5IKbFATKLo

I usually just say "please hang on, while I get my credit card", and then just leave the phone off the hook...

Re: Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]

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Post by listic »

maratd wrote: post #6
dmazin wrote: post #5

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Would love to see some examples!

http://alice.pandorabots.com/

    judge: The cat is green, the dog is blue. 
    ALICE: Is green the dog is blue also cat? 
    judge: What color is the dog? 
    ALICE: orange.
I am not impressed.

Re: Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video]

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Post by maratd »

listic wrote: post #26
maratd wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://alice.pandorabots.com/

judge: The cat is green, the dog is blue. ALICE: Is green the dog is blue also cat? judge: What color is the dog? ALICE: orange. I am not impressed.

Nor should you be. But I think Alice will do better than Mario. All Mario does is talk about his feelings. Alice can do that too.
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