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Directories of Resources
Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada
A comprehensive guide to artificial intelligence organizations, publications, FAQs, repositories, listservs, personal home pages, and events.
 
AI on the Web
A vast compendium of Web resources organized into 12 categories.
Interacting with Intelligent Agents

Note: You need to be running Microsoft Explorer 4+ to interact with the audio/visual persona created for some of these programs; if you are running Netscape, you can still pose questions but will only see text output.

Talk to Page
To see how intelligent agents work, visit Morris Pondfield's site and ask Page questions.
 
Jackie Strike for President
Virtual presidential candidate whom you can question about issues. To see typical reactions try asking the program about unlikely current issues before going on to more popular ones.
 
Ken Perlin's "Responsive Face Demo"
Allows you to manipulate an intelligent agent's facial expressions and program a sequence of expressions.
Developing Intelligent Agents
Scripting Sylvie
Steve Knode offers simple advice about how to download Sylvie (the verbot featured in his presentation) and create some basic scripts to get it running.
 
VirtualFriend 3 SDK
Interactive persona that can be downloaded free for noncommercial use. The development kit includes documentation, data, and code samples.

 

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