botopia™

Question: why are we looking outer space for other intelligent life in the universe, when so-called 'aliens' are right here on Earth?

Consider the following: it is generally agreed that, if there is extraterrestrial life out there, they must be more advanced than humans.

That means they must be extremely efficient, with a highly advanced biological makeup.

Think about this:

Hi, folks,

To all you Facebook botopians ... (and I know you're out there) ... I've just started a group called the 'DO FUNKY STUFF ON FACEBOOK' group, on the Toronto network ... this is a spot for you creative, techie and popular folks to use Facebook to your advantage!

From post on Razorwire's Forums:

Hey! I'm a new Entropia member who is also a member of a large soca/calypso music community in Toronto, Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean (I also have a record label). I want to integrate a game on Entropia with our music and avatars/characters based on elements of the community and culture. Is this possible?

Hi!  We're looking for SecondLife films for an international film festival here in Toronto, from October 12 - 17th. The genre of the festival is fantasy-based films, so we're looking for films in the following categories:

* action
* fantasy - D&D-style
* fantasy - science fiction
* artsy/abstract
* sensual/erotic

This would be a great venue to promote your virtual community, SL business, etc., as this festival is also in the works to be aligned with the Toronto International Film Festival.

A graduate student at Sheridan College has come up with a cool concept for his website that blends chatbot with the bottomless pit of Wikipedia encyclopaedic knowledge.

Sean Beecroft's Yawiki bot ( http://www.yawiki.org:2001 ) allows users to converse through a text-based chatbot interface. Typical queries like 'hi, how are you' are responded by the 'bot on the header portion of the site page.

John Zakos of RelevanceNow! has created MyCyberTwin.com, a site that allows botmasters to create, host and program their own chatbots. While sites like Pandorabots, LotsABots and the like have established this platform (with hundreds of millions of conversations logged), MyCyberTwin is specifically focused on users being able to create a virtual personality "clone" of themselves.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your robots! The site of this year's installation of RoboCup -- the world's largest competition between new robotic technologies and applications -- will be at the Georgia Institute of Technology on July 3rd to 10th, 2007. On hard will be approximately 2,000 students and faculty from 20 nations participating. Other facets of the event include the Robotics: Science and Systems conference and an International Aerial Robotics Competition.

Blue Security, a company in Israel, was effectively put out of business last year by a virulent person or body, intent on stopping the firm's anti-spam Bluefrog software tool.

Dennis Gorelik, a Senior Developer at IBM and creator of the PCnous artificial intelligence system, identifies a weakness of an AIS (artificial intelligence society, consisting of computers trained to 'think') , in that it was not born through natural selection, as human beings are.