Social Web & Virtual Communities

Cyber-Social

• By Benny Head

A.L.I.C.E

• The Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity• Science fiction. Computer Think / Talk like Human.• Technology is currently flawed. Easy to trick.• Improving. How good will it get?

Terminator

• Warning: Uncredited!• Swedish scientists: Human brain - 14,000 super

computers• Understand Computers, Not Brain

Sex Bots

• Growing market, New Technology• Sex bots• Membership fee = Cyber sex• MSN Bots

Lonely People

• Like - Lonely Old People with Pets• Like – Prostitution• Paying for Social or Sexual Interaction

Faceless Internet

• Magic of Internet – Anonymous• No face? No judge• Social unconfident can thrive• Fantasy World• Model Display Picture

MMORPG

• 1 main reason of successful• Fantasy• Real Life: Obese, Unsocial• WOW: Fit, Muscley, Heroic• What would you rather be?

WOW Pod

• Toilet• Stove• Packaged Foods• WOW

Future

• Computer A.I surpasses human intelligence• Everyone could have bot friends• Good or Bad? Good for people or bad for cultural

evolution?

Real Sex Bot

Advanced A.I blowup dolls

Japanese made

Congregate

Realistic cyber world

Advanced Humanistic A.I NPC’s

Custom model your perfect body

Brain installed into computer – matrix

Will this technology happen?

What Ifs

Robots could reproduce, Survival of the nerdiest

Processors installed into brain, download information

Links

Alice

http://www.alice.pandorabots.com

Real Sex Bot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in8BPCGsRo