Copyright 2006 Anglia News.

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From the Technology News section

George, the winner of last year's illustrious Loebner prize for most convincing conversational program, has been given voice-recognition software so that people can to talk to him rather than typing in text. The new George, which also sports a 3D animated body and a computer-generated voice - by UK firm Televirtual - was launched last week at a British Computer Society meeting in Norwich.

George has been designed to express a range of emotions in his voice and appearance. So moving to speech-based interaction should improve the quality of George's responses, says his creator Rollo Carpenter, because people talk more naturally than they type, and George uses their input to learn.

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A BCS East Anglia Prestige Event.

Speakers: Rollo Carpenter of Icogno, and Tim Child of Televirtual

Featuring the first ever live public interview with GEORGE - an advanced cognitive Avatar, based on Rollo Carpenter's Turing Test contender - an Artificial Intelligence.

George the chatbot has taken on form and substance in Norwich, where artists and programmers at the city's Televirtual MediaLab have brought GEORGE to virtual life.

The virtual George can hear and understand spoken questions from real people and reply in his own words. More, GEORGE is an AI with attitude, ranging from angry through curious to happy and even flirty!

7:30 pm, Wednesday 8th March 2006, buffet food from 8:30 pm.

Lecture Theatre 2, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

The programme:
1. Eliza to George, via Alice - A short history of Chatbots - Rollo Carpenter
2. In live conversation with George - Tim Child
3. George takes questions from the floor - George

Please Contact Us if you would like to attend.

Copyright 2006 Televirtual Ltd.

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