What Does Natal’s Meet Milo Mean to Education?

Artificial intelligence. What does it mean to education? You’ll want to watch the Lionhead Studios video Meet Milo to see what may be possible with artificial intelligence. Natal, a Microsoft/Lionhead project, has created a digital boy named Milo who can recognize faces, voices, emotions, and actions. It’s an on-computer character, who seems to understand the person in front of the monitor. The system uses a camera to focus upon the user, which results in hands-free interaction with what’s on the screen. The video has been called scripted, fake, scary, impressive, amazing, and the future, but it seems to be a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In the video, Milo is supposed to be learning from the human, but if the situation were reversed, think of the possibilities for student learning.