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Thus far Wikipedia has classified all of its editors as either Bots or non bots. Bots are "programs or scripts that make automated edits without the necessity of human decision-making".[1] All other accounts are Non-Bots. The distinction is made because bots operate at computer based speeds, and have no sentient control of their decision-making. This is why Bots are generally restricted to repetitive tasks that lend themselves to a very high degree of automation, and as non-sentient accounts Bots are not expected to !vote in discussions or elections.
However there are various other groups of users, including one group who are sentient but capable of editing at automated speeds. Wikipedia has long been a useful testing ground for researchers in the field of artificial intelligence,[citation needed] with wp:RFA emerging as something of a de-facto standard for the Turing test.[2] Artificial intelligences differ from Bots in that they are sentient and therefore have decision making ability. But they differ from other sentient editors in the speed with which they are capable of making decisions, and in that their programmers are able to reset their axioms, or clone or revise their code.
As foundation policy dictates that Wikipedia is the "encyclopaedia that anyone can edit"[3]we need a policy setting out any special rules needed for such accounts. This essay intends to explore issues and concerns relating to AI accounts and, in the hope of being a precursor to Wikipedia:Artificial Intelligence, sets out some potential rules for AI editors.
- ^ wp:bots
- ^ Tolo, Abril (21 March 2010). "Inteligência Artificial e status de administrador - que por sua vez, Turing é grave?". Inteligência Artificial da Guiné-Bissau (in Portuguese) (4). Bissau, Guinea-Bissau: Fundação IT & MEDIA Universidade de Bissau: 21–24. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
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