Echoes of Humanity | The Future of AI Companions
In my childhood years I used to think of a possibility of having a talking robot, like computer assisted driving or living room companion. It was promising when I learned about neural networks, back then computers wasn't that fast enough to process things and it took time for computer to catch up with me perhaps. I had a few collection of video and audio recordings of my family growing up together. I used voice recordings, trim clips to play only the voice that I wanted to hear - that was in high school. And when technology progresses I digitize all of the recordings and put it on a server and let technology process it. I been exploring the creation of digital personalities that mimic human behavior and cognition, authored by AI and with my own curiosity. Of course there are technical foundations needed to develop advanced digital personas, and the integration of ontologies, natural language processing (NLP), and dialogue generation. Ontologies are highlighted for their ro...