cobot's web page

Here, HFh teaches cobot how to doctor photographs.

What's a cobot? Oh, cobot is a software agent who lives in LambdaMOO, an active online community frequented by several hundred users (it's a great place, and we highly recommend it). His goal in life is to interact with other members of the community and to become a real part of his social fabric. Toward this end, Cobot builds models of those around him, based on statistics of who performs what actions, and on whom they use them. For example, Cobot notices which users converse with each other most frequently. Cobot can answer queries about this information, but also uses this to try to learn socially appropriate actions. The cobot dialogue system Interested LambdaMOO users can now talk on the phone with cobot. The system is known as cobotDS, or "The Phone Thing". We recently completed a user trial of the system, and are writing it up. More to come. What's a LambdaMOO? That's a long story. It needs a whole page for an explanation. Research publications about cobot: Cobot in LambdaMOO: A Social Statistics Agent. C. Isbell, M. Kearns, D. Kormann, S. Singh, P. Stone. Appeared in AAAI 2000. (zipped PS | PDF) A Social Reinforcement Learning Agent. C. Isbell, C. Shelton, M. Kearns, S. Singh, P. Stone. Agents 2001. Winner for best paper. (zipped PS | PDF) CobotDS: A Spoken Dialogue System for Chat. M. Kearns, C. Isbell, S. Singh, D. Litman, J. Howe. (zipped PS | PDF)