Virtual Intelligence

A Virtual Intelligence (VI) is a computer software that recieves input and/or sends output in a way other than graphical or command line user interfaces. They are not to be confused with artificial intelligences, which are computer programs capable of adapting to new situations and independent decision making, or with artificial general intelligences, specialized computers capable of performing any intellectual task that organics can.

The VI spectrum
All of these softwares are Virtual intelligences:
 * Softwares that operate on motion sensing input devices;
 * Voice Recognition and Text-to-Speech software;
 * Chatbots and Automated online assistants;
 * Embodied conversational agents
 * Specialized Personal Agent
 * Specialized Personal Agent

Interactive character agents
Interactive Character Agents (ICAs) are sophisticated avatars of a computer system that "interact" with the environment through a holographically-projected body within that environment. ICAs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with. Though ICAs appear to be intelligent, they can't adapt to new situations nor they are self aware, just made with clever programming.

ICAs vary greatly depending on how they are deployed. They can, for instance, act as tour guides (as in the case of the Citadel ICA, Avina) or manage sophisticated lab and database work.

Some ICAs have 'personality imprints', with their behaviour parameters, speech pattern and appearance based on specific individuals.

Specialized Personal Agents
Specialized Personal Agents (SPAs) are compact, specialized software commonly using VI technology.

Like ICAs, SPAs vary greatly depending on how they are deployed. They can, for instance, serve as personal secretaries, filtering calls and scheduling meetings based on user-defined priorities, or serve as advanced search engines, propagating themselves across the extranet to collate user-requested data.

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