Was anyone amazed/creeped out at last years E3's showing of Peter Molyneux's Milo? The original announcement video featured an extremely intelligent, state of the art AI capable of expressing emotions, recognizing faces, and making us all question whether the Terminator series will become reality.
The demo which was vaguely reminiscent of Steven Spielberg's early 2001 film Artificial Intelligence (only much less depressing and in a video game format) introduced elements new to not only the gaming community but could be considered revolutionary to the future of "smart" computing technology. Peter Molyneux himself even commented on his ambitious project with high hopes that Milo could "change the world."
There has been confusion however, in regards to the Milo production. In fact, a top Microsoft executive claimed Milo will no longer be a game, later to clarify that it will be a game. Confused? Molyneux had things to say regarding his project in an interview at the GameHorizon conference in Gateshead, England.
"Milo has been a really hard thing to do and a really hard thing to describe," he said. "I have real sympathy for the [Microsoft] people over in Redmond, because they understandably have some questions."
Hopefully we will learn more in the next coming weeks especially with Molyneux participating in the TEDGlobal talk on July 13, where he'll be amongst peers discussing "human systems." According to his TED bio, Molyneux is "building an astonishing new 'virtual friend' who interacts with you.'"
Sounds a little like Milo right?
If you missed the original Project Natal Milo demo, you can see it here
