ABSTRACT
There are many different ideas about what counts as AI and how AI relates to virtual humans. This chapter will present an AI landscape and position the different types of virtual humans and AI within it. Many early researchers thought of the goal of AI research as being the creation of a human-like, generally applicable intelligence and were focused on real-world tests to prove it, such as the Turing Test. This chapter will present an AI landscape and position the different types of virtual humans and AI within it. More significantly, the chapter will also identify the three main challenges within the landscape that need to be overcome to move from today’s chatbots and AI to the sort of AI envisaged by those early researchers and in the popular imagination and science fiction literature.
