[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and robots

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Bob the Wikipedian
<bobthewikipedian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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"--

Would they edit war, I wonder?

> 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.

Maybe. I would want to get the opinion of an expert on AI on that.

> 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?

A reverse Turing test, maybe?

Carcharoth