This describes a computer program that creates a personalized virtual assistant. This assistant can talk like a human, show emotions, and has general knowledge, plus specific knowledge for different tasks like sales or teaching. The core idea is to build an agent with general interaction skills that can then be customized with specific information for various applications.
Why it matters: Filed before modern AI, especially large language models, could effectively create human-like conversational agents with broad expertise. Today, these technologies make the 'generating' and 'endowing' steps of the claims far more achievable and sophisticated than in 2002.
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