Virtual worlds making artificial intelligence apps 'smarter'

An artificial intelligence company next month will unveil plans for a program that will help its AI software "learn" by interacting with humans in virtual worlds.

Novamente LLC, a San Francisco-based AI company, plans to detail its new AI product and how it will operate it in virtual worlds next month at the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo in San Jose.

Ben Goertzel, Novamente's CEO and chief scientist, said that virtual worlds are an ideal environment to "embody" AI software, to give it a form to allow it to "learn" by interacting with virtual animals and humans.

While many existing AI applications today -- like those used to predict the movement of a stock or to play chess -- focus on a specific task, the new AI programs do not conceptualize who or what they are so they can expand to solve additional problems, he said.

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