using government money:
EVL will build a state-of-the-art motion-capture studio to digitalize the image and movement of real people who will go on to live a virtual eternity in virtual reality. Knowledge will be archived into databases. Voices will be analyzed to create synthesized but natural-sounding “virtual” voices. Mannerisms will be studied and used in creating the 3-D virtual forms, known technically as avatars.
Leigh said his team hopes to create virtual people who respond with a high degree of recognition to different voices and the various ways questions are phrased.
Hope it does not cost ONE BILLION DOLLARS!
What’s that you say? Electronic Visualization Laboratory, EVL, not Dr. Evil, the archvillain?
Oh. Nevermind
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I wouldn’t panic just yet. A wise person once wrote, “Spend a few minutes chatting with even the best of the bots, and you will cease to be threatened by their imminent eclipsing of humanity. Their performance is, in [Turing prize benefector] Loebner’s own word, gruesome. So I felt pretty silly about all the deep anguish to which I had subjected myself on that score.”
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