While no robot has passed the official Turing test (though many have passed highly simplified versions of it), the idea of a central AI system is an innovative one-- just think, "Wikipository-- the information repository that any robot can contribute to"-- Intelligent robots are programmed to be modular in a sense that they can receive new sets of instructions and "learn" to perform them. If robots had a centralized global information repository, just think of the possibilities of artificial intelligence! If such a repository could be established and successfully implemented, it would no doubt become the most powerful source of artificial intelligence in the world. And regarding robots "letting" humans edit their 'pedia...unless we program them to restrict our contributions, they can't. And even then, WSC is correct-- what's to stop us from looking like a bot? Bob On 2/9/2011 9:47 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote:

On 2/9/2011 5:22 PM, Carcharoth wrote: Unless the interface is designed to prevent that, most likely. Bob

On 2/9/2011 6:21 PM, Carcharoth wrote: They could probably set up listeners to monitor for activity like that and enforce a 1RR-- where if two bots successively reverted one another, a counseling agent would slip in and request they stop. The counseling agent would bring in another agent designed to evaluate which edit was probably correct using complex AI, and the two bots which had been involved would be denied access if they attempted to perform the same action again. Bob