is that Microsoft called the tech behind them Microsoft Agents, but it was purely about the animated characters. Their idea of a multi-agent system was having two animated characters on the screen, both with their own speech bubble, walking animation, voice synthesis, pointing towards a location...
...everything except the actual, useful work that agents are supposed to do. Way to grab onto the shallow graphical parts with both hands and miss the core idea, MS. Again.
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Date: 2006-09-27 12:25 am (UTC)...everything except the actual, useful work that agents are supposed to do. Way to grab onto the shallow graphical parts with both hands and miss the core idea, MS. Again.