ACRL-VWIG & ALA Virtual Communities Libraries Program
August 20, 2017 12PM SLT 

at the CVL Auditorium in Second Life

"Avatars and Artificial Intelligence: Future Digital Citizens"
presented by:
Starlight Darkmatter, Second Life Bar Association and  AI Robot Plutchik.

At this meeting Starlight Darkmatter from the Second Life Bar Association returned to share information about the rights and responsibilities of avatars. Participants were able to interact with AI robot, Plutchik. Plutchik is a work in progress – a bot in Second Life that can be trained to learn from an end user.  A useful response gets a swipe for “good” and a tap for “bad.”  Plutchik is named by Robert Plutchik who identifed eight primary emotions: anger, anticipation, disgust, fear, job, sadness, surprise, and trust.  With further development the Plutchik bot may be able to differentiate between emotions based on voice tone and stress.  To the extent that this happens can we say that bots have developed consciousness?  Can we teach bots to learn and apply ethical concepts? Will we learn to consider bots digital citizens?    Those of us at the meeting had an opportunity to ask Plutchik questions and get some responses.  

Photo by Dahlia Jayaram

Photos courtesy of Valibrarian Gregg

For the full transcript of the presentation click this link:
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pfovczopj8ejRUc1diaFJSbG8/view?usp=sharing