Virtual companion

Virtual companions (sometimes also Artificial Human Companions) are a sub-category of chatbots . These bots can hold any type of conversation and continue it independently. Existing forms of virtual companions are Cleverbot, Microsoft's Zo and Xiaoice or Steve Worswick's chatbot Mitsuku. It is primarily about software developments, with some virtual companions also appearing physically as a robot. Virtual companions are used for entertainment purposes or for other forms of assistance, for example for psychological or medical support or to support older people in their everyday lives.

Existing virtual companions

Microsoft's Zo and Xiaoice and Steve Worswick's chatbot Mitsuku are already very advanced forms of virtual companions . Replika is an example of psychological assistance in the form of a virtual companion. The first developments in the direction of virtual companions can be seen, for example, with the AI Cleverbot . They differ from virtual assistants such as Siri or Google in that they are not only purely task-oriented, but also continue a conversation independently and can be used in any direction of conversation.

Individual evidence

↑ Jonathan Grudin, Richard Jacques: Chatbots, Humbots, and the Quest for Artificial General Intelligence . In: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '19 . ACM Press, New York, New York, USA 2019, ISBN 978-1-4503-5970-2 , doi : 10.1145 / 3290605.3300439 .
↑ replica. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .

[1] Jonathan Grudin, Richard Jacques: Chatbots, Humbots, and the Quest for Artificial General Intelligence . In: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '19 . ACM Press, New York, New York, USA 2019, ISBN 978-1-4503-5970-2 , doi : 10.1145 / 3290605.3300439 .

[2] replica. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .