Mario Lives: An AI for creating a living and conversing agent [video] (opens in new tab)

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 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.

> "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...

Could give a few examples ?

"AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

It involves a lot of techniques which are typically called AI. E.g. planning and learning simple models of the world. The best word is "weak AI" or "narrow AI".