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[edit] Disturbing

I find this stuff weird....I guess my fear is that of the "skynet" syndrome. Or that of the Terminator scenario. My inquiry was if any one knew the possibilities of these things becoming "conscious?" While it may sound strange...I often wonder about some of my "friends" on myspace. I support myspace 100%, althhough I see it's potential for frontier-like experimentation grounds. I imagine the launching of interactive bots is underway...developed in such a manner that they really believe they are the profile of their personal creator."Conscious Avatars", probably something of our nature? Please leave any info. one has....I may be talking to bots on myspace. Sean Slater.

Does anybody besides me find the concept of bots distburbing? It seems like we get closer an closer to having computers that think as well as people.--Joseph Wayne Hicks 04:42, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

I had been hoping to find some information about bots at wikipedia here. And no, Joseph, I don't fiond the bot concept disturbing. Just a necessary partm of modern life, ande the sooner we can get them to do all those routine computer tasks that eat into our time the better, SqueakBox 19:36, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sexbot Link

Is this link broken for anyone other than me?

[edit] grrr...

This article is a stub, need lots of enhancements, and better style. Theres personal comments, "news" and othre crap. --Tei


This article needs some diagrams...so can easily understand....---Hardik —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.96.185.222 (talk) 05:24, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How can I create a bot

can anyone help me to create a bot. if mail me [[deshmap@yahoo.com]] I am interested to learn it. help!!!

Is there a site here in wikipedia that can help set up a bot, or outside wikipedia that can help set up a bot for use in wikipedia, or could a site be set up to help people to make a bot with simple commands that could be used and not too tasking on non-typewriter hands and for those lacking or unable to comprehend computer languages and is unable to or not prepared to learn computer the berlitz way, by linguaphone or computer languages for dummies. Basically what I am asking for is just something simple that anybody can use. Apologies for bad grammer. Also could a direction for the above be placed here either on the page or in this discussion page.

[edit] This page needs a huge amount of work

I don't have a huge amount of time to work on this, but I'll clean it up a little. However, most of it appears to be total rubbish... 74.102.192.208 05:19, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I cleaned up the first couple of paragraphs, but it's still pretty much a stub. If I have time I'll come back later and see about writing some more. 74.102.192.208 05:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree this article is awful! Looking back it was even worse, so congrats on the cleanup so far. I'm not sure why such a relatively important article is quite as bad as it is! - PocklingtonDan 16:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

thank you for fixing, I think that this needs a real editing.

For starters, this business about bots doing things at "many times the speed of a human" needs to go. Computers are used to do lots of things faster than human can (for certain types of tasks.) That kinda the point of computing and has nothing to do with bots (though yes, they are software and yes they do what they do much faster than a human could.)

[edit] Complete rewrite required.

But the real problem isn't style or lack of eloquence but rather the matter of proper definition, which is a little tricky in this case since "bot" is not much more than a pop culture term. It refers mainly to computer programs that emulate human activity. However, from this messy article the reader may deduce that all sorts of computer programs may be considered as bots. A computer virus, for example, is one notable mistake. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.138.196.209 (talk) 23:07, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Dead Linksbot

  • The Tamil Nadu Forest Department website has recently changed their URLs and the links to their old site from references and notes used in the many Protected areas of Tamil Nadu articles and other south india related articles are now dead links. Is there a Bot that can go through these articles and update the links? Doing it all by hand will be a Herculean task.-Marcus 17:54, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FreeRice

The facts are kinda interesting. But I guess there are many other examples. Shouldn't the FreeRice section be moved to the dedicated page FreeRice? The link could point at the anchor there. Not that I find it offtopic in Internet bot (keep a pointer there), but I just think it belongs to FreeRice. -- skiidoo (talk) 10:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

jåååååååååååååå en bot er til for å jukse på et mafiaspill —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.249.189.38 (talk) 15:13, 23 May 2008 (UTC)