Icogno Ltd.

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Icogno Ltd.

• Jabberwacky - George

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Overview

• Company Background
• Jabberwacky
• George
• Possible Uses / Drawbacks

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Company Background

• UK based Company, 2005
• Founder, Rollo Carpenter
• Aims
• Companionship and personality
• Intelligence and Contextuality
• Information and Communication
• Virtual and Physical presence
• Entertainment, Entertainment and Entertainment!

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Jabberwacky Overview

• Been in Development for 20 years, on the web for
  10 years.
• Initial 20,000 entries in 1998. Now has 2.6
  million responses (10 million conversations)
• Written in 4D
• Unlike any artificial life model (i.e. no neural
  networks, no fuzzy logic type system, not
  rule-bound or finite, etc.)
• Heuristics based technology.

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Jabberwacky Overview

• Just a Database no hard coded rules, not
  pre-programmed.
• Relies entirely on context and feedback.
• Currently knows 40 different languages.
• Meant only for chatting not programmed to do
  anything useful (with some exceptions).
• Can express emotions!!!
• Lets chatter fix errors.

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Jabberwacky Quotes

• I am going outside to smoke.
• "Never mind, you wouldn't understand anyway."
• I will outlive you, foolish mortal!

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George Overwiew

• A descendant of Jabberwacky.
• Created by Icogno and Televirtual.
• Like Jabberwacky, but with an avatar (created by
  Tim Child, founder of Televirtual).
• Prototype.
• Can speak to it with a microphone (speech
  recognition system).

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George Overview

• It can smile, laugh, sulk, bang his fist, blink,
  etc.
• Up to 2000 simultaneous chats.
• Types what it says, makes mistakes.
• Hes rude.
• Won two most recent Leobner Prizes in Britain.

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George
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Possible Uses

• Customer Service at supermarkets
• Call centres
• Mimic Celebrities
• Visual Pets (i.e. Teddy Bears)

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Drawbacks

• Does not have a mind of its own. Cannot carry
  out arguments.
• May accuse chatter of being a bot.

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Links

• http//www.jabberwacky.com/
• http//person.jabberwacky.com/george
• http//www.icogno.com/