[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and robots

[Bob the Wikipedian]

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:
> Just as we have no way of knowing which of our editors are AIs who
> have passed the Turing test, I doubt if they will be able to tell
> which of their editors are humans who can pass a reverse Turing test.
>
> Incidentally one of my friends who is in that line of work reckoned
> that there probably isn't yet an AI that could pass the Turing test
> sufficiently well to get through RFA. But I reckon there is an even
> chance that we will need a policy such as
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/AI_accounts before
> the end of Wikipedia's second decade.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Cardy
>
> On 9 February 2011 14:45, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12400647
>>
>> "Robots could soon have an equivalent of the internet and Wikipedia."
>>
>> Do you think they will let humans edit their Wikipedia?
>>
>> Carcharoth
>>
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