Artificial companions are typically intelligent cognitive 'agents', implemented in software or a physical embodiment such as a robot. This paper is a summary of a forum on Artificial Companions in Society held in October 2007. Artificial companions (ACs) are typically intelligent cognitive 'agents', implemented in software or a physical embodiment such as a robot. They...

This research report seeks to connect the future of the Internet to a new, even though relatively developed, technology; that of computer speech and language and its embodiment in a concept the author calls an Artificial Companion. He argues here that such entities are coming into being and that they will change fairly rapidly from...