SECRET AGENT MAN Bots Working Together
BotSpot's Secret Agent Man confesses that he rarely finds other agents with whom
he gets along. Still, that doesn't stop him from reporting that work is
progressing to make bots work efficiently together, each performing a
specialized job. That has the potential to greatly increase the
power and flexibility of computing agents.
NEW
Shopping Bot
Bonanza. Just in time to help you find holiday bargains, we've added or
updated nine shopping bot listings -- and some are quite unique. For instance, one looks
for sales in brick-and-mortar stores, another finds the best deal for long-distance
calling and a third is a browser add-in
that also finds related news. To see all the additions, go to the Shopping
Bot page and look for the
NEW icon.
NEW
Chat
With John Lennon Now's your chance to
chat with John Lennon. This isn't just any chatterbot, however. It is a
pioneering attempt to recreate the personality of an actual person.
NEW A Bot
For Getting Rich (maybe) IPOpatrol can help you get in on the ground
floor of IPO-mania. It monitors the listings of initial public offerings
provided by online brokerages, then e-mails or pages you when there are
changes.
Things
That Think: A Special Report Thirty years ago, people laughed at
television's Secret Agent Maxwell Smart when he talked into his shoe phone. Who
could know that Smart was presaging serious work now being done to make
computing so ubiquitous that, someday, even our clothes will compute.
Update Bot
Watches Auctions for You
Got the online auction bug? This new Update bot will search major auction sites
for any item you want to buy. While you're waiting to see if your bid wins,
check out the other Update bots. You'll find them in The List of All Bots.
Toys Reveal Clues to the Future of AI
Lego's robotic construction kit is an amazing application of
decades of work in artificial intelligence. It was built with the help of
engineers at MIT and inspired by NASA's work on Lunar and Martian exploration.
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