[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and robots

[Bob the Wikipedian]

On 2/9/2011 6:21 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian
> <bobthewikipedian at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 2/9/2011 5:22 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
>>> 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?
>> Unless the interface is designed to prevent that, most likely.
> And would they come up with something like 3RR?
>
> [This may be getting a little silly...]
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