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Or, think of a machine like this: It is made of many robots scattered across the world. You say something to one of them, R1, and it sends out a signal to other robot parts of itself all over the world; one of them, R2, finds an intelligent human who is willing to converse for awhile, and says exactly the same thing to that person. That person responds, and R2 sends the response back to R1, who then says it to you. Your response to R1 is again sent to R2, and so on. R1 would appear to be intelligent, but is not, it seems to me.

Yes, Irina, there is an underlying semantic issue, which emerges in various ways. A bot whose replies are indistiguishable from those of an anencephalous child, or of someone affected by Down syndrome, or somebody in a coma is arguably easy to program. Does that mean that anencephalous kids are not human? Down kids? Comatose people? Leeds kids? Ignoring the semantic issue may lead to a slippery slope. Who is supposed to decide whether the test has been passed? The kid's mom? Or the bot's programmer? There is a saying that emerged in 15th century, when jurists started applying textual analysis to the interpretation of legal texts; "In dubio non est recedendum a propria significatione verborum". Roughly translated it means, "When you're in doubt, never back away from the proper meaning of words". The problem of determining the proper meaning of words is still with us.

hi i am amazing cause i am super!!!

They were very smart in the 15th century! Well, some of them. Maybe it's because they hadn't started dumping a lot of heavy metals into the environment.

Elucidating the true meaning of "intelligent" is not easy.

hi irina!!!
how come you have made so meny bots?

Because I am prolific!

cool

Another plug-in that I made, that anyone is welcome to use, is

(propattitude)

This contains a number of words like think, know, believe, imagine, and so on. These words indicate a mental state which relates to some supposed or possible fact, e.g.,

I believe that snow is white.
Let us suppose that grass is purple.
I guess morning is near.
George believes hedgehogs are reptiles.
I wonder whether this is a sentential clause.
Rhonda believes victory to be near.

Such words are typically followed by sentential clauses, not direct or indirect objects. The sentential clause is often preceded by "that", as in three of the examples above. The sentential clause is often a sentence in itself, as in all but one of the above examples.

Because such verbs are typically followed by sentential clauses rather than by noun phrases and adverbs, they can mess up attempts at general keyphrasing.

I also found it useful to create

(verbaux)

which is just

(can, could, did, does, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would)

These words occur frequently and tend to behave in a similar way, e.g.,

Will we dance?
Yes, we will.

I only recently discovered this for myself:

http://www.personalityforge.com/botland/newfeatures.php

It contains a number of plug-ins based on the grammatical role that a phrase plays in the sentence, e.g., subject or object. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but it looks quite interesting.

How would i go about getting a picture thats not on the picture list for my bot? :O

You have to have a development of 1000, the pict has to be a certain size (see book of AI), and send it to the Professor.