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HELP ? Please allow time for Arty Fishal to load before he speaks for the first time. He should speak more quickly after that. If you can't hear or understand what Arty Fishal is saying, drag your mouse above the "Respond" button to see a text version of his utterances. Arty Fishal won't work if Java is disabled on your browser, or on older browsers that don't include Java 1.2. WHAT ? Arty Fishal is an animated talking web bot, an experiment in artificial intelligence online. HOW ? Arty Fishal's "brain" is a collection of CGI scripts written in Perl. They were developed by modifying Selena Sol's open source Web Store scripts. The main script -- intelligence.cgi -- examines your input and decides on an appropriate response. |
Arty Fishal's face and voice are powered by Java, so no agent or speech synthesis applications are required. He still needs some speech therapy.
WHO ? Arty Fishal's creator is Dave Reed. In his day job, Dave oversees several e-commerce websites as Senior Webmaster for a national clothing retailer based in Massachusetts. He was educated at Harvard University on a National Merit Scholarship, decades before the Internet was opened to the public. Dave can be reached at services@webshowplace.com WHY ? It is natural for children to do what they see their father doing. Although his birth father was mechanically inclined and inventive, Dave was adopted late in life by the DNA programmer who had originally written his genetic code. That Programmer delights in creating and bringing to maturity intelligent creatures who converse and interact with Him, and his child Dave share's his Father's interest. |