Faire Pousser des Intelligences Artificielles dans les Mondes Virtuels

Scientists are working on many different kinds of AIs.

So imagine you had programmed an AI which is starting to take shape and it's meant to be the brain of a pet or potentially a baby robot. But in order for the robot body to move around in the real world, see and touch things, you would need a few more years or decades of R&D just to make it work mechanically.

Meanwhile you wish your pet-brain AI wants to learn from interacting with other things and beings. Kind of a chicken and egg situation. But now you can get around it pretty easily: just plug your AI into a virtual world such as Second Life. No need for a robotic body, the virtual body will be your AI's interface into the virtual world...

Researchers at US firm Novamente are working in this direction according to this BBC article.

Found via Blogging the Singularity.