Online worlds to be AI incubators
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Artificial intelligences could soon be living and learning inside online worlds such as Second Life.
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Will the search engine leviathan end the hunt for a commercial hybrid? In Autopia.
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.
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Virtually a new way of doing business It would not be the first time the suggestion has been made that games programmers hold at least one key to the future for business systems development. But IBM's latest research project - a "secret island" within the confines of Linden Labs' Second Life massively multi-player games environment - brings that possibility a whole lot closer.â¦
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SAN FRANCISCO -  Philip Rosedale didn't create Second Life to be a game or a toy. He thinks he is remaking the Internet - taking it on a giant leap forward, much like the invention of the Mosaic browser or World Wide Web. "What would feel like success?" Rosedale says, pausing to think about it. He is in the funky, ragged cafeteria of the company he founded, Linden Lab, which built and runs the groundbreaking, buzz-generating online virtual world called Second Life. Half-eaten Costco-size bags of chips and bowls of fruit lie on bare tables. Rosedale is wearing jeans and an orange sweater, hair gelled and spiked. With his classic good looks and wide-eyed enthusiasm, Rosedale seems like a cross between Brad Pitt and Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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A new experiment sends a simple idea racing around the web, and tracks its progress. All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again. By Robert Lemos.
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A free web-based tool is launched that allows people to build a virtual world in less than a minute.
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Blog: Virtual worlds, or the 3D Internet, appeal to early adopters of games. Getting more people to come will require more applications, said experts.
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By RACHEL KONRAD  SAN FRANCISCO - Capitalizing on the popularity of social networks and online worlds, Sony will launch its own virtual universe and another 3-D game built almost entirely by players.
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Unsuspecting residents are lured in by shiny, foreign objects that unleash a self-replicating worm and bring the virtual world to a grinding halt. In Game|Life.
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God games in which  players must control virtual people could be educational, says research.
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Metaplace builds a different architecture for virtual worlds.
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Games will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone.
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Artificial Life, a brazen Hong King Company has invented a new (and I use the next term very loosely) game. For those men without a girl, and who have exhausted every other method of finding companionship, comes the Virtual Girlfriend.
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Children have always enjoyed make-believe. Now, some new Web sites are letting them live out their fantasies in virtual worlds using self-designed avatars.
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It's time for radical robomediation. Let's hand the service industry to automatons rather than transforming humans into reluctant machines. Commentary by Momus.
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(InfoWorld) - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a government-backed research institute, has teamed up with private industry to set up a lab that will develop technologies for online games. The CAS Institute of Automation, Shanda Interactive Entertainment, and Interjoy Technology will work together to establish the Digital Interactive Entertainment Lab in Beijing, the three partners said in a statement. The lab will be headed by Wang Yangsheng, who also serves as principal of the Online Game Strategic Project, a government-led initiative to spur the development of China's online gaming industry. Online gaming has exploded in popularity in China during recent years, initially led by offerings from Shanda. As competition has increased, a wider array of games has become available, including titles imported from the U.S. and South Korea. Many of these games attract hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users. Online gaming is expected to generate 9.7 billion renminbi ($1.2 billion) in revenue next year, market analyst iResearch said last month