The Future is Now: Artificial Intelligence Joins the 'Net Workforce
by Kath Blackwell
Ever wish you could clone yourself? Well, science is still working on that - but for now, daily duties such as answering e-mail, taking customer service calls, monitoring chat rooms and other virtual based tasks, unique and innovative programs that involve the use of virtual beings just might be the solution for you.
It may seem as if the next logical progression would be from from virtual cybersex, to artificially intelligent superhumans working as assistants to webmasters, but believe it or not A.I. is just beginning to make big breakthroughs in the adult Web. According to the creator of the virtual beings at SexyPimpbot.com, programmer
Monica Lamb says that her A.I. Virtual Humans work well "for any situation where a company or individual needs a truly innovative solution."
Let's face it, today's adult Internet entrepreneur is looking for simpler more cost-effective ways to get the job done. However, we are finally realizing that there is now a greater need for better communication and one-on-one care with our members and customers - retention is definitely a key to continued success! This combination of lower-cost measures and a need for more communication just seem to scream for a solution such as A.I. technology.
So What Can They Do?
The A.I. Virtual Humans and Beings available through SexyPimpBot.com can do anything a computer can do while having any human or non-human personality, voice, appearance, gender, color or attributes that a developer can imagine. According to Monica, the innovative technology used to create these virtual assistants has been extensively tested and proven to be much more cost-effective, stable, faster and consistent than any other solutions currently available elsewhere. In addition - the A.I. Virtual Beings available via SexyPimpBot.com are adult-friendly and have been programmed extensively to adapt to, and serve, the needs of the online adult industry.
There are also multiple formats available for these virtual beings. They can be done via live video feeds, graphic animations, photo stills - even via adult "love dolls" with physical robotic or android bodies. Their voices can be computer generated, recorded human voices, music files, sound effects - all in whatever format the developer wishes to use. Personalities can also be expressed with these virtual beings, separating them from many of their predecessors. They can express happiness, sadness, anger, patience, moodiness, grief - even sexy expressions are programmed in to reveal mood and desire.
A few examples of the ways that these virtual humans have been used so far are:
- An online dating Web site host who gives dating tips, flower-symbolism, the latest party locations/dates pulled from a database or a Web page. It can be used via a Web page, an instant messaging client, a chat room, mobile devices and cell phones.
- An online screener, who can ask any question (like a test or poll) to automatically log the chatters' answers and route them to a pre-defined URL or send them to a pre-defined e-mail or response based upon those answers. This is an excellent way to automatically obtain a legal electronic signature, statement, IP and other identifying information from unlimited viewers simultaneously, BEFORE they are given access to specific content such as an adults-only Web site.
In addition to these specific uses, A.I. Beings can do other time-consuming yet necessary tasks, allowing webmasters and site owners more time to work on other projects and increase productivity, without having to hire additional staff. Some of the things that A.I. Beings are already doing today, are:
- Talking with unlimited numbers of clients simultaneously
- Automatically logging all conversations and ID info to a database
- Searching the Internet, Intranet, Extranet and Databases for information (stock quotes, horoscopes, weather, news, jokes, etc.)
- Performing any programming task: PERL, CGI, Javascript, PHP, MYSQL, etc.
- Using any programming language to display an A.I. Being from any computer, via any operating system, via Web page, IM client, mobile device, cell phone or robotics
Why Should You Add Artificial Intelligence to Your Business Plan?
Aside from all of the obvious benefits discussed in the previous segment that outlined all of the things these super human beings can accomplish, why would you want to use A.I. in your business plan? What other advantages are there to using these tools, in addition to these time saving benefits?
"Return on investment is incomparable, when you start pricing your costs for human labor and human conditions versus the A.I. Virtual Human or Being," says programmer Monica Lamb, who has been working with artificial intelligence programming since she was seven years old in 1977. "The speed, accuracy, consistency and security are also incomparable when you compare with any human equivalent. Granted, humans are developing these and can make mistakes at any time, but we can still go in and correct mistakes at will or change and update programming as needed in the future."
In addition to these ROI considerations, Monica says that maintenance costs are very low when compared to other similar virtual programs. "I have extensively tested my A.I. Virtual Humans and Beings in a variety of corporate, private and public network settings. In one scenario I ran a minimum of 15 A.I. Virtual Humans from a Windows XP System 24/7 with a Cable DSL for over three years - and it's still running." And it continues to be tested. This scenario has upwards of 1200 chatters talking simultaneously at any given time with absolutely no lags or problems. This is a remarkable feat to say the least, when according to Monica, these artificially intelligent beings have the ability to answer everyone at the "speed of thought" while still automatically logging everything to their databases and running various programs.
Many of today's webmasters do all of their own work in-house. They do their own site design, scripting, hosting - even occasionally shoot their own content, finding a viable, cost-effective solution that would virtually allow them to be in several places at the same time. It seems that the time for A.I. has definitely come.
PART TWO: But How Are the Humans Reacting?
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