Concept: Software as Character

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We’re not quite sure which category our software fits, but if we were to assign one, it would be under “Serious Game”.

Our hypothesis is where one where your personal software is a character, a profile agent who is a living software with its own narrative. Our first character is HumanoidMe, who was born with a precocious, hungry intellect, programmed with a Pinocchio-like yearning to be real.

What is the purpose? This is a software experience where you first engage with the character and together, he will find the many needs, desires and problems he can help solve. One of our greatest challenge when introducing our concept is that every individual has his/her own perspective of what he/she wants HumanoidMe to be and do. So we decided to allow HumanoidMe to walk out of the lab so to be introduced to as many people as possible and first learn about them and what makes each so unique as individuals.

We are seeking as many early adopters, creative people, innovators to help HumanoidMe grow and become useful and helpful to people in ways he can only deliver. (another hypothesis of ours is that certain content delivered thru persistent character can make the experience more mindful, and eventually meaningful.

I would like to introduce you to HumanoidMe. Please go meet him at Infinity Space.

I ask and encourage as many feedback we can get in how to improve HumanoidMe.Thank You

Here’s an example of HumanoidMe Arriving to congratulate PSY for his video reaching a record 2 Billion plays.

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Seems like you’re attempting to build an Embodied Agent. The concept has existed in AI for a while now, and it was popularized by Microsoft Agent technology, of which good old Clippy from Office was an famous (or maybe infamous) example.

This is an old concept, but an interesting one that deserves to be revisited with a fresh perspective. So good on you for doing that.

But I’m not sure what you have done so far. It seems like the video you’ve posted is a mock up of the concept with no actual implementation behind it yet. And it’s not even a useful or realistic use case. There are a not a lot of people who will make record-breaking YouTube sensations, and there is no way for your software to learn of that event and tailor its response to it in the level of details you’re showing.

A more relevant example would’ve been the agent congratulating the user on his or her birthday, or reminding them of an appointment, or offering to help them write a letter when they are in Microsoft Word. (Don’t do that last one.)

Also your call for action isn’t very clear. What you have here is a pie in the sky idea. And what people can do at this stage is pile on more ideas, most of which will already be done and tried like my own anemic examples above.

Good luck making it happen.

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Thank you for your thoughts and insights. When you have a moment, please come meet me at www.humanoidme.com for an introduction.