morphi
Introduction | Examples
morphi is a new name and concept that comes from the word anthropomorphism.
Wikipedia: Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts.
morphi is the concept of machines, computers and software that behaves as-if they possess human characteristics.
morphi is one of the next big evolutionary steps in software, and the stepping stone towards general artificial intelligence and humanoid robots.
What?
Morphies is artificial entities that can take any form. They are able to imitate basic human emotions in their interactions with humans.
They can take the shape of anything, from virtual agents on web sites to interactive robots in the physical world.
The distinct feature that all morphies has is their ability to project an appearance of having human-like emotions and intention.
Why?
Computer interaction is getting increasingly complex and we are still confounded to the keyboard and mouse. Morphies will be artificial entities that can take form of an agent that has a natural language interaction with you and helps accomplish your tasks.
Making the software or machine appear to have real emotions will help the adoptation of the artificial entity and increase the quality and output that is possible when interacting with such artificial beings as compared with todays way of working with computers where they give no aid or guideance to the user.
How?
By leveraging the human attribution of anthropomorphism, which is our tendency to think that non-human creatures and entities have more feelings and intention that they in reality might have.
This is the tendency that makes people think their dogs and cats understand the owner and their intentions and feelings.
By building software and devices which appears to have emotions, we can potentially achieve a symbiosis between us and the devices and software we interact with.