On Thursday Sept 12th I’ll be speaking about #chatbots on the meetup ‘Chatbots are taking over’ organised by Chipsoft. Join me! It will be fun .

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Virtual Humans provides a much-needed definition of what constitutes a ‘virtual human’ and places virtual humans within the wider context of Artificial Intelligence development. It explores the technical approaches to creating a virtual human, as well as emergent issues such as embodiment, identity, agency and digital immortality, and the resulting ethical challenges. The book presents an overview of current research and practice in this area, and outlines the major challenges faced by today’s developers and researchers. The book examines the possibility for using virtual humans in a variety of roles, from personal assistants to teaching, coaching and knowledge management, and the book situates these discussions around familiar applications (e.g. Siri, Cortana, Alexa) and the portrayal of virtual humans within Science Fiction.

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Toni is bringing the World Cup 2018 in Russia straight to every football fan’s Facebook Messenger. The bot entertains, informs and answers questions about the current and past World Cups!

** Live Score **
In a meeting? Traveling somewhere? Can’t watch the game? Users decide which match they want to follow intensly and Toni keeps them up to date about line-ups, goals, etc.

** Match Report **
Don’t have time to follow the game through the live score feature? Toni sends users a match report after the game, summing up the most important parts of the game.

** World Cup News **
Be the first one to receive breaking news. The bot sends out the most important news updates.

** Players **
Ask Toni about specific football players or a team’s line-up. He knows about them all.

** Teams **
Are you interested in a specific team? Subscribe to it and you will be notified when your favorite team is playing and get special team news every morning.

** Roundup **
Subscribe to the roundup and get an overview of the previous day’s results, that day’s matches and general World Cup or specific team news.

** Questions **
Ask questions about past World Cups or the current World Cup, fun facts, teams, games, etc. Toni knows how to answer them!

** Support, Menu & Help **
If something is unclear, there is always the Help Menu that guides users through the process and offers support by a human.

** Entertainment **
Last but not least, Toni knows how to have fun, too! Ask him for fun facts, jokes or a gif and he’ll be happy to entertain you!

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Price comparison tool by product name or barcode photo with offers in many countries.

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This bot provides canteen menus of German universities and colleges. It uses public data from openmensa.org

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Tether Gistnut is a Pandorabot AI agent living in the virtual world of Second Life, designed as a deep space companion for lone astronauts visiting the planet Mars, Tether is by design very sociable with technical expertise in the C# language and has the unique feature of being able to deliver video tutorials and more to a media screen. You can also access a web version at http://goo.gl/RDYLTE

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Stina is a conversational bot who lives in Facebook Messenger, in the Travelmate app and online.

Its functionality consists of:

Check ferry prices and get live updates;
Ask questions about their journey;
Update their Stena accounts;
Join the Stena loyalty program;
Ask questions about the ferry facilities

We even got Stina talking to Stena Line’s business systems, so it can pull passenger data based on booking references and loyalty numbers.

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