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Robotics department

I do not believe that robots, at least until they achieve human- or sub-human intelligence, can give meaningful contributions to a Wiki, especially since this robot has already flagged a legit edit as suspicious and deleted a perfectly legit (if poorly capitalized, and containing a questionable word as a name) edit. I'm for a ban. Thoughts from others, particularly fellow admins? --Jay o'Lantern (Haunt) 05:34, 11 Aug 2005 (UTC)

I think a ban's in order (despite being a relatively new user myself, and certainly not an admin), unless we can get proof that it can make meaningful edits instead of just flagging and removing stuff. (Incidentally, it was my edit/revert that it flagged as suspicious.) My one question is: are robotics and A.I. technology advanced enough that a robot is able to make edits like the ones this one has done? --DorianGray

So far, it's only made three edits:

1. Flagging the removal of text (big deal)
2. Noticing the word "urine" (which was actually a name) and auto-reverting the edit
3. Creating a user page to identify itself

Those are nothing to an AI expert. I could probably program them if I knew a little more about online bots. However, we have already seen the problem: the two cases it noticed "vandalism" were both WRONG, and no human would have been terribly likely to make the judgement calls made IMHO. --Jay o'Lantern (Haunt) 05:48, 11 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I see... Well, I'm no expert (in fact, I can barely even use HTML), but after reviewing the data, I'd have to say it is a robot. Technology is advancing faster than I thought, which scares me a little. But that's neither here nor there. Yeah, banning it would be a good idea. Meaningful edits certainly seem beyond its grasp. --DorianGray

Well, I have a date with a pillow, so whenever I come back online tomorrow, I'll see if other people have contributed to this discussion before acting (as well as seeing if it makes more edits. Wouldn't shock me much if it noticed my above edit...) --Jay o'Lantern (Haunt) 06:00, 11 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Well, I say we administer the Turing test ;) Homestar Coder 06:43, 11 Aug 2005 (UTC)