Unleashing Emergent Intelligence in Swarms of Virtual Humans
There are many interesting technologies and ideas evolving on the great incubator that is the Internet. Now and again some of these converge and unleash an explosion of opportunities and dangers for both the Business world and wider Society. EVIL Limited is focused on what we believe will be a significant Convergence event involving Virtual Humans, Multi Agent Systems, Evolutionary Computing and Autonomic Technologies.
The image below of the EVIL Landscape illustrates our road map towards this Future Convergence Event. On this page we help you explore this Landscape Quadrant by Quadrant. The technology is brought to life with a number of live demonstrations which you can access using the buttons provided as we introduce each of the Quadrants in turn.
EVIL Landscape - Route Map towards Autonomic Agents with Emergent Intelligence ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The First Quadrant. Here we find the basic Intelligent Agents that are appearing in increasing numbers today all over the Internet.
Click on the LOUISE Button below to see and chat with an example of an intelligent EVIL Agent. The interactive part is provided by an Ai natural Language engine (AIML), linked to a Speech Synthesis capability integrated with the Avatar.
Many Intelligent Agents already feature Speech Recognition capabilities. When combined with Goal Oriented Intelligence such Agents can be employed in roles such as Tele Sales and e-Learning Tutors . Click on the ALICIA Button below for a demostration of just such an Agent in action.
Recently in this Quadrant we are beginning to see 3D Photorealistic Intelligent Agents, that feature Voice Recognition and the ability to access web services and information dynamically. Click on the DENISE Button below for a demonstration of a realistic Intelligent Agent taking on the role of a Virtual Human Personal Assistant.
The Second Quadrant. The top left quadrant of the EVIL Landscape is where we find pioneering applications of Emergent Intelligence. These applications feature many simple autonomous Agents with goals to deal with complex volatile environments. Typically these Agents interact as one or more swarms to achieve their individual goals, self organising into coalitions where it is in their own interest. Out of the non-linear dynamics of these Agent to Agent interactions intelligent solutions mysteriously emerge!
Although there are many excellent opportunities for Business Applications the simplistic nature of the Agents limit the potential for true Artificial Life to evolve in this Quadrant.
Click on the Finance button below for a demonstration of an existing commercial application of such Emergent Intelligence to the Financial Markets.
Click on the Logistics button below for a demonstration of an existing commercial application of such Emergent Intelligence to the Logistics Sector.
The Third Quadrant. As we move towards the bottom right quadrant of the Landscape we find that the Intelligent Agents become more proactive , more autonomous and thus more like virtual Humans. Correspondingly the potential Business applications here are in another league to what has gone before.
Entities in this quadrant will be very difficult to differentiate from humans when interactng with them, not just in terms of their basic socio emotional skills but in that they will have well defined expressive personalties. Their abilty to act as pro-active expert advisors to business owners in any field which is knowledge intensive and benefits from analytical processing will make them essential for competitive survival in those areas.
The Virtual Humans in this Quadrant can interact with the Human world in a truely multi modal way. They can use voice recognition and synthesis, operate electronic devices and can thrust themselves into the biosphere as Holographic projections! Although Artifical life in this Quadrant can also replicate and self heal it can not evolve on its own. The potential for Artificial life to fulfil its real potential in this quadrant is thus limited, which leads us on to the fourth Quadrant.
However before we go on to the fourth Quadrant why not explore the third Quadrant by clicking on the Emily button below.
The Fourth Quadrant. It is when we enter the top right quadrant of the EVIL Landscape that things start getting really interesting. This is where the technologies associated with Autonomous Virtual Humans, Multi-Agent Systems and Evolutionary Computing converge.
It is this Convergence event that Evil Limited is steering towards. Our Corporate objective is to exploit the Emergent Intelligence that will be unleashed when highly Autonomic Intelligent Agents swarm and evolve unconstrained in Cyberpace.
Here the autonomy, mobility and self replication capabilities of the Virtual Humans developed in the third Quadrant will be enhanced with an ability to mutate and to evolve under the control of technologies such as Evil Limited's Evolution Engine. Mutation in this context specifically includes Goal Mutation. Basic cyber evolution is already being demonstrated on simple Agents by existiing Business applications in the second Quadrant.
In the fourth Quadrant the Autonomic Intelligent Agents will collaborate at a socio emotional level with humans through emotion sensitive enhanced natural language interfaces, as well as collaborating securely Agent to Agent. One of our objectives here is for these collaborating Intelligent Agents to create (through goal oriented mutations) their own Agenda as they evolve towards strong Ai. The question of wether such Intelligent Agent Swarms are self aware is mute in this context, the key factor of interest is that they can and will develop their own non human controlled 'Emergent' Agendas! To see how this leads to the Singularity in the Internet click on the 'visit the Autonomic Singularity' button below.
Click on the Autonomic Cyber Security button below for an introduction to the Eco-System Architecture that EVIL Limited has produced as the basis for early developments in the fourth Quadrant.
The EVIL Future.
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