Although severums tend to be pretty docile, Red Devils are very agressive. This particular cichlid is actually a cross-breed between a Gold Severum (Heros Severus) and a Red Devil (Chichlasoma Citrinellum). Cichlids inhabit the warm rivers and lakes of South America and Africa. If the photograph which accompanies the story is an actual photo of "Mopy pet" I feel compelled to inform you that he is not, as you mentioned several times in your article, a goldfish, but is actually a member of the Cichlid (pronounced sick-lid) family called a "Bloody Parrot". I just wanted to draw your attention to an error in this week's "Inside the Internet" column about Mopy pet. While you're waiting, don't forget to feed the fish.Īfter this article was published, I received the following letter: We'll just have to greet the future when it comes. What could artificial intelligence far more powerful than the mind of Mopy the Goldfish do if it were combined with holograms and superfast computers? If a million photos of an animal can be analyzed into a lifelike goldfish on your screen, what could a billion photos of the cast of Hamlet be turned into? What could a trillion pictures of a bustling city be synthesized to show?
#MOPY FISH OR PC#
It lets anyone with a Windows 95 PC live and play with a virtual pet that behaves like a real animal in countless ways.īut Mopy also suggests that the future of home entertainment is about to take a dramatic turn. Until now, artificial intelligence has been treated like life on Mars - you hear about it, wonder if it's true, and know you'll never get a chance to see what it's like. Like any real fish - and unlike any animations you've ever seen - Mopy swims and cavorts in endless realism, never repeating any of its behavior patterns in exactly the same way, always reacting in subtle variations to your mouse movements. The result is simply unnerving if you are accustomed to ordinary animations. The analysis was then coded into the artificial intelligence program that governs the behavior of Mopy on your screen. These individual photos were then analyzed by a high-speed computer to discern the almost imperceptible patterns of gestures and slight movements that a goldfish makes. But unlike nearly all other animations you can play on your PC, which are composed of hundreds or perhaps even thousands of separate frames, the animation that gives Mopy such striking realism was created from 1 million color photographs of a goldfish. Mopy is an animation, as you might guess. And it surely is the most brilliant adaptation of artificial intelligence you can find without spending a cent. Gimmick or not, the little goldfish is one of the cleverest toys I've ever seen. Global Beach, a British company specializing in the creation of artificial life through software, created Mopy Fish as a public-relations stunt for the German branch of Hewlett Packard.
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#MOPY FISH OR DOWNLOAD#
The download file is about 1.4 megabytes, so it should not take long to receive.
#MOPY FISH OR FREE#
Mopy Fish is available as a free download on the Web at. (A few coaxing clicks and a dash of fish food will bring Mopy back to life.) If you forget to feed it, Mopy turns glum, and if you neglect it for more than a few weeks, the fish goes belly-up and floats to the top of your screen.
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The fish is utterly realistic in the way it darts about, and it acts just like any of the goldfish I've owned in its jittery mannerisms when you get too close. It's a Windows 95 screensaver in which an astonishingly lifelike goldfish swims around your screen, looking for companionship and, of course, an occasional pinch of fish food. Now you can have a virtual pet of your own, at no cost, right on your screen. The craze started in Japan, where living space can be too restrictive for real pets. Mopy fish from Hewlett Packard takes artificial intelligence to a new level - or is that a new depth? It looks real, acts real and gets upset if you don't give it lots of attention.Īl Fasoldt's reviews and commentaries, continuously available online since 1983Ĭopyright © 1997, The Syracuse Newspapers A virtual fish? Take the plunge into artificial intelligence