<B>Talk to George, he's a virtual chatterbox</B><I>, September 4th, 2006</I><P> The Festival of Science will be attended by its first virtual delegate, a software "chatbot" that can hold 1,000 conversations at the same time.
<P>George is a thin, bald androgynous 40-year-old who can blink, fidget and converse with a peculiar, languid accent. The virtual human was developed by Rollo Carpenter, artificial intelligence (AI) programmer and managing director of Icogno Ltd, and Tim Child, founder of Televirtual Ltd.
<P><I>The Telegraph article: </I><A HREF="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/04/nscience04.xml" TARGET=_New CLASS=ph>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/04/nscience04.xml</A>
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