ELIZA's Granddaughter -- Ellie

Remember ELIZA^WP ? (I do but I'm older than you. ;))



She has a granddaughter: http://ift.tt/1m8GQBf

Quote:

Ellie is an avatar, a virtual therapist developed at USC with funding from DARPA, the Defense Department's advanced research center. And "people love interacting with her," says Louis-Philippe Morency, a research assistant professor at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. Morency has been working with Ellie—part of the university's SimSensel Project—for several years now. In that, he has helped to build a program capable of reading and responding to human emotion in real time. And capable, more to the point, of offering those responses via a human-like animation.

"people love interacting with her" is quite interesting as that's what was said about ELIZA. The Wikipedia article is worth reading to see how these reactions presaged our current man-computer interactions.



I wonder if Ellie's advice is any better? :cool:

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