Since I’ve mentioned Evony here before, I thought I ought to link to Bruce on Games on Evony, which reveals all sortsa interesting things about the game, including the fact that the curvy females in their ads are apparently ripped off from like lingerie catalogs, and the Evony owners are aggressively spamming all sorts of [...]
Filed under: Other worlds, pictures, snake oil | Tagged: evony, MMO, scams, snake oil | 3 Comments »
We interrupt our regularly-scheduled stream of narcissistic pictures to comment on this story, because we keep saying this in comment threads and Plurks and mailing lists and stuff, and we are a Twitter user, so we thought we might as well say it here:
This “study” is silly.
Silly in, I kinda suspect, the “advertisement thinly disguised [...]
Filed under: Other worlds, business, memes, snake oil | Tagged: marketing, pointless babble, twitter | 2 Comments »
So I don’t really intend this to be a “samples of really bad pseudo-AI chatbots” weblog, and I’ve restrained myself from at least one derisive posting since the last one. But here I am again!
Background: Kanomi (in a posting that you should definitely read and enjoy) linked in passing to a Ray Kurzweil page [...]
Filed under: identity, snake oil | Tagged: aiml, bots, chatbots, kurzweil, ramona, science, transhumanism | 3 Comments »
ot on the heels of my complaining the other day about overhyped AI stuff, I get in one of my syndication feeds a Wired clip pointing to a rather breathless article about how “[f]using human psychology with an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) engine, MyCyberTwin’s virtual humans allow organisations such as NASA, AMP and National Australia [...]
Filed under: Second Life, snake oil | Tagged: ai, hype, mycybertwin, secondlife | 5 Comments »
