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Mud Agents

Mud Agents. Internet Chat. Multi-user Near-real time Asynchronous communication Locality Public space / private space Different rooms Identity. Mud Worlds. Detailed World Map Virtual objects Money Instruments Virtual characters Monsters Store-keepers. World Map. Town Center. Bank.

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Mud Agents

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  1. Mud Agents

  2. Internet Chat • Multi-user • Near-real time Asynchronous communication • Locality • Public space / private space • Different rooms • Identity

  3. Mud Worlds • Detailed World Map • Virtual objects • Money • Instruments • Virtual characters • Monsters • Store-keepers

  4. World Map Town Center Bank east DragonKid TheBankTeller RedBeard north south Troll-ville Pool Hall west

  5. Sample Interaction >You are in the Town Center > In the room is : DragonKid, RedBeard East >You are at the Bank > In the room is : TheBankTeller TheBankTeller : would you like to put some money in your savings account?

  6. Mud Interaction • Plain ‘ol chat • DragonKid: I need a beer. • “Emote” • Virtual actions performed “DragonKid hugs RedBeard.” “RedBeard spits at Dragon Kid.”

  7. Two Agents • Julia • 1993 • TinyMud • Cobot • 2001 • LambdaMoo

  8. Julia • Comes when called • Gives directions • Gives money, exchanges money for quotes • Gives messages to people

  9. Gossipy • Remembers what people say, and can quote them on request You : Julia quote Tirstor Julia : “I once heard Tristor say, ‘Well not in the FLESH, but I am here. ’”

  10. Gender • Julia guesses gender from names • You :‘Julia, what sex is Robyn’ • Julia : I would think Robyn is female.

  11. General Knowledge • Location • Amount of money in possession • Who has killed her recently • (Is mean to them)

  12. Cobot • Mainly focused on general chat properties, not necessarily on MUD-specific worlds

  13. Social Statistics • Keeps track of verbs (emotes) used by a particular person • Keeps track of verbs used by one person onto another person

  14. Who are your friends? • Cobot keeps track of interactions, and can report who you’ve talked to most, who you interact with • Cobot keeps track of who acts like you

  15. Cobot Changed the World • This ability itself altered the interactions on the MUD Snow_Crash [to Medb] : Cobot says you act like me. Stop. Medb cracks up laughing at Snow_Crash. Medb [to Snow_Crash] : How do you know it’s not you acting like me?

  16. Cobot’s Dialogue • A small set of large, public texts • (starting with the Unibomber Manifesto) • When asked a question Cobot’s not familiar with, it picks a sentence from this text, by weighting sentences by number of matched words

  17. Cobot Speaks Technicolor_Guest [to cobot] : What’s your religion? Cobot [to Technicolor_Guest] : technology unless you REALLY believe in that religion yourself and find that it arouses a deep, strong, genuine response in many people

  18. The Trick (well one) • Pick texts with a coherent theme • Where virtually the entire text is amusing • Other choices scripts : “The Big Lebowski”, “Planet of the Apes”, articles on alien abduction and paranormal experience

  19. Everybody loves Cobot • Most popular inhabitant of the room • More than twice # of interactions than second most popular

  20. Conclusions • Very simple functionality • Simple dialogue model • Still more entertaining than many people

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