Jahaan Maiden conducted her research on 'Artificial Intelligence in Second Life' as part of the 9th annual BDPA IT Showcase held August 4-5, 2011 in Chicago IL. This is the 3' x 5' poster that was used to portray her research. Jahaan is now entering her third year at the University of Cincinnati (UC) with a dual major of Marketing and International Business. As an active member of the UC community, Jahaan sits on the marketing committee for Entrepreneurship Club and is also an active member of Shades of You, ADVANCE, and the Muslim Student Association. Having rowed as a varsity crew member for the Great Miami Rowing center, Jahaan is looking forward to joining the rowing team in the upcoming season. Outside of her UC experience, Jahaan is training to become a mentor at the Institute of Youth Development and Excellence. This is Jahaan's first year participating in the National BDPA IT Showcase.

1. Artificial Intelligence in Second Life
Jahaan Danielle Maiden
University of Cincinnati
What is Intelligence? Real Life Impact
Intelligence is the There have been studies that
Uses of AI Second Life
manifestation of mental Natural language processing show that attitudes of
capacity. Often used to An online virtual world
One communicates with a residents while in Second Life
describe humans and some established in 2003 where 20
computer in a “natural language” follow them back into the
animals. Can machines be such as English. It understands input million users, “residents,”
real world.
intelligent? Yes. and initiates action. The input words interact with avatars.
are matched against the words
already stored into the system and
Artificial Intelligence once the word in identified, some
Practical Uses
The science and engineering action is taken. • There are over 700
of making intelligent machines educational institutes located
by studying Due to NLP on Second Life.
there will be
the thought less operators
processes in call centers Students can
learn about
of human human
beings and Computer vision anatomy In a study, residents were told to
by Focuses on providing computers exercise at different levels inside of
AI-SL second life. At the end of the study it
representing those processes with the same functions of human
via machines. We regularly vision. • Opportunities to go on was observed that residents who
exercised inside second life are more
come across these machines. An example being face recognition virtual field trips. likely to exercise more in the real world.
on cameras
Terminology & Branches of AI Expert systems
Science Behind SL
The study of Artificial Where a “knowledge engineer''
Residents Second Life is a product of
can visit
Intelligence is very complex interviews experts in a certain museums
Linden Labs. Their site also
and there are many segments domain and tries to embody their allows users to
knowledge in a computer program. edit and add
most of which mimic human
processes such as: content
o Logical • The ability to establish social
A doctor’s
o Pattern recognition expertise in a relationships via resident Linden Scripting Language
o Representation
computer communities which can be LSL gives behavior to avatars
that operates
o Learning from experience focused on social awareness and objects. There are over
24/7
o Planning issues, professional groups, 300 library functions available
o Epistemology and religious meetings and and users can define
Gaming Systems prayers
o Ontology The “computer” that you play against in additional functions.
o Heuristic online and video games is Artificial
Intelligence. Residents
can meet
Can you win for religious
a game of events
online
chess?