The Wonderful Future?
A look into the next century of AI
Kamal Aboul-Hosn
Cornell University
Virtual Worlds?
Consider filming of Fellowship of the
Rings
Such virtual worlds are not impossible
The future of human interaction?
Seeds already exist with email, instant
messenging, NetMeeting,...
What roles will computers play?
A World of Virtual
People?
We can already create a virtual world with
virtual people who behave like humans
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Helm’s Deep battle sequence done with a
program called MASSIVE
The MASSIVE program
Breakthrough in film & Artificial
Intelligence
All agents act independently
Programmed based on human
behavior
Given some randomness (happiness,
aggression)
Some unexpectedly decided to retreat
One seems to talk on a cellular phone
Back to Thinking Criteria
What does it mean to think?
Learn and adapt without the aid of
others
Perform multiple tasks
Convey knowledge to others
Take knowledge and reason about the
world
Back to Thinking Criteria
Learn and adapt without the aid of others
GA-walker
MASSIVE agents
Perform multiple tasks
MASSIVE agents
“Eaters” world creatures
Back to Thinking Criteria
Convey knowledge to others
Chatbots
Take knowledge and reason about the
world
Deep Blue
MASSIVE agents
NAVlab
So Why No AIs Around?
No entity can accomplish all of these tasks
Each works within a limited domain
Expensive
MASSIVE: $40,000 per license
"Before the next century is over, human
beings will no longer be the most
intelligent or capable type of entity on the
planet. Actually, let me take that back.
The truth of that last statement depends
on how we define human.”
--Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual
Machines