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Originally Posted by Dianna Vesta
I appreciate your innovative & ideal approach to this but I would not invest a lot of time and money into this, if I were you. No matter how appealing you make it….it will always just be cool but fade quickly.
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its actually all very easy to do... but almost impossible to make realistic. i experimented with this quite a bit a few years ago with my programmers. the bot itself understands very little and creates the illusion of conversation by simply asking a question when a remark is made that it doesn't understand. it only takes a minute or two to realize you are not talking to a real person. putting recorded clips of a girl there is not going to change that. besides, it can't respond to spelling errors and slang etc. it can't answer a question like "do you have a myspace profile" unless someone manually programs it to know what myspace is.
i did the exact same thing that he is talking about with using model clips, expressions, gestures etc to create an illusion of interaction.
not to sell to people as live chat with a real girl, thats about as assinine as the claims in his "press release". we were just experimenting with the technology and seeing how far we felt we could take it. we thought of some very interesting applications for it. still have the code. we might use it in the future. we thought of some great ideas for it... but nothing that relys on tricking people and lying to your users as this guys wants to do.
apart from all the other problems and limitations, there are 4-5 patent holders with overlapping claims that are claiming they have the patent on the bot technology itself. they can't possibly make a public statement that they are not infringing on any patents with their software or that you are contributing to infringement.
the problem with his claim is he is saying that surfers will actually think they are talking to a real person. i call bullshit on that.