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I am privileged to make available a demonstration that represents the last year of my life. Although, as far as media goes, it is rather boring; nevertheless, what it represents, as far as advancements in communication with intelligent agents, is revolutionary.

It is a demonstration of the intelligent control of an assistive agent within a real-time resource management simulation (or real-time strategy video game.) It is important to realize that the text being entered has been parsed into a specialized language. This means what you see typed has to be encoded by hand, by a human, in order for the agent to understand it.

From there, the agent has to rationalize about what is being said and tie it into context using models of negotiation, mutual planning, information seeking dialogue and so forth. The agent interprets the input sequence and responds accordingly.

What you will see is not only a human being able to give orders to an agent, but that the agent can react to those orders in a number of ways. At times, there are arguments, negotiations, mutual planning, discussions, interruptions, and more.

When you watch this demonstration, focus on what must go on inside the agent's mind that allows it to respond. What allows it to communicate back to the user in such a powerful and expressive way?

After you have watched the demonstration, please leave me comments about your thoughts and reactions, as well as questions about the technology and its implications for the future.

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