On Mar 14, 2007, at 4:34 AM, Kevin Peterson wrote:
I don't know, though. It might be interesting to reformulate things in terms of interacting with a virtual world over the same channels humans do. Text chatting is just too narrow a channel to tell much. When an AI can reach max level in comparable playing time to a human and lead a guild in a MMORPG, hooked up to the computer running the game client only via a video cable, mouse and keyboard, I'll be very impressed.
Leading a guild requires a lot of chat -- so much so, in fact, as to be effectively a Turing test. However, the "level in comparable playing time to a human" is not at all hard, and at least in some systems, doesn't require much intelligence at all. http://www.wowglider.com/ has such a bot, which plays World of Warcraft just as a person does with keyboard and mouse input. This was so effective that Blizzard is suing them now, having been unable to defeat the bot programmatically, since it just plays WoW the same way that a human would. (It might be that wowglider is an elaborate scam and doesn't actually work as advertised, but the fact that the makers of WoW are suing suggests it does work.) -- Randall Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Is it asking too much to be given time [...] I'll watch the stars go out." -- Dubstar, Stars ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
