All right, you guys are going to think I'm nuts...
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More nuts...
But after I read that whole thing I thought why not have a program to give cars personalities? I don't think giving the cars the ability to go into "heat" would ba a good idea at all. (Thinks for a moment) No, nonono...
I do, however, think that grate benifits could come from a car with a computer in it that one could interact with. So, with paper in hand and a brain deprived of sleep I joted down notes some time after midnight. Now, my dear friends, I will try to make sence of them and ask your honest thoughts on them.
Here it goes... (Glances at scribbels) Ok, first thin is first, how would you give this program feelings?
Answer: You use a graph system like in the SIMS. Of you who own this game or have plaed it you know what I'm ranting about. bars reprisent at what pricent of the perscribed "Feeling" is positive and negitive.
How would this work? Magic! (Always wanted to say that) In reality the "Feelings" would be noting more than :
Hunger Would be for things like gass and energy for the PC
Fun/Happy would be interaction like games and stuff
Hurt/Pain would be troubles with the car it's self
Needs would be things like oil change, air in tiers and stuff like that.
And any other catigory needed just be cause we can add one if we like.
But, as any SIM player knows, the sims don't remember what has been done day to day, that's the player's job. They can't look back and say "Boy was that fun!" Or "I sure wish Billy Sim hadn't crisped when he tried to coock some thing on the stove."
We need the AI to be able to remember. This is a problem, and a chalenge... Please go here to see what could be the answer.
http://www.cyberlife-research.com/artic ... /ieee0.htm
I, by the way, have this game. It is awesome! If you like breeding littel hampster like things and running your but off when the "monsters" chase you, that is.
So, it has feelings and memory. )Note here that it DOES NOT do any thing to the car it's self, it can only sence the car through the dash and instuments in the car it's self.) It needs some thing else, a REASON to live. In other words it can't just sit and be cute, so add some office features, like calander, meeting planer, address book, finance manager, car records filing system for milage and matenence, a note book of some sort, iternect and hands free phone capibilities, and so on.
Comunication is a can do now. Speach to text would be how you would talk to it. It would work only in text recognition, but I could beable to recognize your voice and even the tone of it for better interaction. And it could comunicate to other car AIs. It could go on line in to it's own "Chat world" to comunicate long distance. ANd to comunicate back Text to speach or just text.
Also there could be diferent "Breeds" of AI "Personality". The "Cat" would be sassy and smart. The "Dog" would be fathefull and inteligent. And so on. And all AI could be bought and installed. Hooked up to the dash board and set up in the car's radio/intertainment aria.
One last thing, the makers of this AI could make a contract to the buyer and say they could reclame it if the contract was broken, thust insuring that A: the AI would never bee hacked in to and pirated and B: insure that in a small way the AI would have some small rights as a "New Life form"
OK, that was my rant, tell me what you like, and what needs work. Chow!
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