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From: rick_s on 28 Jun 2010 04:28
On 6/28/2010 1:18, rick_s wrote:

>> http://i.imagehost.org/0974/GozerStanding.jpg

> It will be a World of Wonders.

I want to keep calling her Zuul, since I think that suits her character
better and maybe Sigourney will forgive me for that. I hope so because
she starred in Aliens as Ellen Ripley as well.

Now women like to feel empowered, and they would feel empowered by
having Goser as their AI assistant and some would have Zeus, sitting on
a throne, big white beard, holding a lightning bolt, and some Poseidon
with his trident, because when you sit them there, they look austere.

Like Greek Sculpture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Poseidon_sculpture_Copenhagen_2005.jpg

Now a young boy that wanted to feel empowered might have Halo.
http://j.imagehost.org/0275/halo_master_chief.jpg

I don't play the game but that might be the type of assistant that
allows a young boy to turn his own life into an adventure of some sort
with his pal Halo. If that is his favorite game that would make him open
his Christmas present in a big hurry. (They always know when they are
getting what they want they pry it out of their little sister)

So artists are really the ones who can make the magic happen for the
people here. It does make a difference between a real artist making it
and you doing it yourself. And so there is every reason to believe that
some aspects of this you will be able to buy off the shelves since you
can't make it yourself.

Even if the code that makes him operate, is no different than the
scripts that you might find in games rooms. With this sort of
merchandising it is usually very popular when the movie or game just
comes out.

Its so much easier just to go to the store, pick up a DVD and presto,
you have Halo or Goser right there looking maybe quite realistic and not
frozen in time there but sitting and looking quite real, moving slightly
and with as I say some small continuous animation like bats to make the
scene look animated but not distracting.

If they are not actively doing some task, whereupon the scene would
reflect what they are doing so you will know.

But even if the artwork and animation is claymation style, that's fun
too. You might remember the Italian movies like Jason and the Golden
Fleece it was full of this kind of imagery. Cyclops and fighting
skeletons all by stop frame animation similar to claymation.

But if you were making Halo, then the creators of that DVD would be
thinking about how the character will interact with the boy who owns the
DVD and so then you see in order to satisfy the boy, he might expect by
nature, "Wow great! Now I can play with him!"

Well that's a lot of AI programming and thought to make a character that
can actually play with the boy but then we can use styles, to add
certain things to the AI.

In big chunks. So behaviors and styles round out a character and make it
seem more believable. And remember that I said mythology mimics life,
well how different is Poseidon from Zeus?
You see since few people know the difference except one carries a
trident and one a lightning bolt, you can apply many of the same styles
to both characters.
To save you a lot of work.

So then when you package or perfect your AI by editing scripts you can
apply styles that give character to your AI that do not affect his
ability to function, but merely make his ineraction with the user more
realistic.

Now I haven't done anything more to the Complaining Farmer yet, because
I am taking some time to consider ways of doing it first. In stead of
going in full steam ahead damn the torpedos I am thinking of easier ways
to do it, and that sort of things.

Since he is not going to be interacting with the user, all I really need
to do is make an animated gif, for all the various weather conditions.
That would be the simplest form.

That's not really AI though is it? He would appear to be responding to
the weather, but then it would be repetitive.

So you see to make him properly, he needs to continue to amuse the
reader until he finds a place in their heart, otherwise he is a passing
fad fading quickly into the recycle bin.





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