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From the New Scientist newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/ot8h8
Researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands are developing an 'anti smoking chatbot' - a female virtual coach that will help smokers trying to quit by answering their questions and 'listening' to them with appropriate facial expressions and voice tones. They plan to develop more 'virtual coaches' for other user groups.
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Perhaps someone in a university down the road could create a 'virtual smoker-bot' and put the two of them together. It might be interesting to watch in a battling chess computers kind of way.
Posted by: Andy Hunt | May 25, 2006 at 08:24 PM