Artificial Intelligence is a promising field, which has not yet found an adequate role in business applications.
One approach is commonly known as "chatbots". These are "virtual humans", which can just talk with you about several subjects, or can be used as "customer assistants" on your company's Web page, or as "virtual assistants" on your personal PC.

Technologies

We have experimented with several technologies, including:

• AIML: Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
• Mediasemantics
• ProgramD
• PandoraBots
• Haptek characters
• Oddcast characters
• Ultra Hal Virtual Assistant

Virtual Humans Forum

Virtual Humans are intelligent computer driven personalities. They may seem like something out of science fiction, but they are already here. Companies use them as website hosts, individuals use them as personal assistants, and people interact with them in computer games, educational applications, and many other arenas.

Vittorio Rossi is the Administrator of the Virtual Humans Forum, whose topics of discussion center around Virtual Humans, their design, programming and uses. This is pretty broad and includes animation, voice I/O, face recognition, speech recognition and robotics.

Hal 6.0 Plugins

We are actively involved in the Hal 6.0 developer community and in its Zabaware Forums. We are developing some plugins (additional customized functionalities), which you can download from the Software Downloads Area in the Virtual Humans Forum or directly from the page Hal plugins.
One of our plugins (vrFreeWill) has been included in the current Hal standard release.
Ultra Hal Assistant is an intelligent chatbot, developed by Zabaware Inc. If you want to use it, you can visit Zabaware site.