Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have built an AI smart enough to pass an avatar version of the Turing test — convince a human that it is human while conversing in a virtual environment like Second Life.
Their bot is called “Rascals”, which stands for Rensselaer Advanced Synthetic Architecture for Living Systems.
see here: Advanced Synthetic Characters/RASCALS Cognitive Architecture
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