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Virtual Humans: A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete With Software and Step-By-Step Instructions
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Author: Peter M. Plantec, Ray Kurzwell, Ray Kurzweil
List Price: $34.95
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ISBN: 0814472214
Publisher: AMACOM (November, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 30,045
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
"She's got a great personality"
Virtual humans are here and we will see more of them in the future. Peter Plantec's premise is that the more "human" they seem, the less robotic they appear, and that will engage us humans so we will enjoy interacting with the V-people. His book tells how to create a personality in a V-person, including software. The book is easy to read, very entertaining, and gives a glimpse of our likely future with these V-People. WIth this book, you will be able to create your own V-person and give it a personality and emotional quirks.
Rating: 5 out of 5
A useful help button some day?
Virtual Humans is an easily readable book introducing the future interfaces between humans and large and difficult to access bodies of information. This is a very unusual treatise in that it is both interesting, funny, well written, and understandable by all but the most computer literate among us. I recommend it without reservation as an introduction to the near future of artificial intelligence and future, hopefully, helpful useful help buttons.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Good read, even for non-techies!
Let me say two things first: I have no intention of creating my own V-person any time soon, and, unline the author, I don't look forward to the day when virtual humans make up a good part of my life. So why do I give Peter Plantec's book five stars? Because in taking us on a tour of the technology of virtual humans, he makes us take a thorough look at ourselves. In his unusually engaging and humorous style, Plantec confronts us with the chemistry of our own minds and, by doing so, explores what being human really is. I expected a crusty scientific treatise; I got an eminently readable text that made me smile while learning.
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