New article up on http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/29/peter-molyneux-lecture-extract

"Living dream

We are bringing all those things I've just mentioned together in one title we are creating at Lionhead called Milo. We've got this wonderful new controller, we've got online, and the power, so what do we as creative people do with that? I've always had this dream, this insane and stupid dream, and that dream was to create something that lives.

So what we've done is create a boy called Milo with hundreds of little muscles behind that face. We've created this boy, or a girl, you can choose a boy or a girl. This boy starts off when you first meet him, he's moved from the city to the countryside, he hasn't got any friends, he is starting school in two days' time and he sits there and looks out at you and he says "I need a friend, and you are going to be my imaginary friend." And everything that you do with Milo inspires and changes him, and you see the glory of him improving.

Milo will recognise shapes, but what is really happening here? The process of scanning [shapes shown to the screen] is really lovely, you just reach your arm up. You can also scan in 3D objects, for example if you are eating an apple you can give it to Milo and he will carry on eating it.

The online portion of our inspiration is that we are continuing to collect and improve his object recognition skills. This technology is something that is being worked on by Microsoft Research. With all the Milos that will be released we will be centralising their recognition of everything in the world."

Wow! So all Milos will be pooling data into one huge database for updating AI design!

Discuss:

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You read it! You can't un-read it!

Hrmm I guess my question is Milo the name of Big Brother?

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