Talk:I packed my bag

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Imagine the following hypothetical dialog:

HUMAN: Do you know how to play the game "I packed my bag?"
PROGRAM: I am famiiliar with all kinds of knapsack problems.
HUMAN: I mean the car game. Do you know the one?
PROGRAM: Yes, I know that one. I leared it as a child. I packed my bag and put in 40 digits of pi.
HUMAN: I packed my bag and put 3.14151926535897932384626433832795028841971, along with a zero knowledge proof that OJ was innocent.
PROGRAM: I dont believe that such a proof exists.

Now suppose that the dialog extends for quite some time, until the HUMAN fails to keep up. Is the PROGRAM really a program, which has passed the Turing test, or is this script made up? Of course, this script is just a made up example of a possible dialog between an examiner and some future hypothetical simulation of conversation. However, a major failing of Eliza type programs is a lack of real world knowledge. One thing that might change that is the existence of a project like the Wiki, which could in principle be used as a database for some type of Artificial Intelligence applications.

That works in principle for so called declarative knowledge, however reasoning and thinking presumably involve procedural paradigms. There is something very strange therefore about "I packed my bag" and where it belongs, because this should be a very simple game to implement, in that it simply involves alternatetly adding elements to a list.

Someone should therefore write an "I Packed My Bag" game that uses the Wiki as a database for things that the computer-player might decide to put in the bag. Then when a player asks a certain bot about the game, then the human player would be in for quite a surprise! That is because the player would quickly find that the computer player has a great deal of knowledge about a wide variety of subjects. It is espescially desirable if such a program 1) uses the Wiki SQL data files as a knowledge source, 2) the program is capable of making commentary about the items in the list. It is even more desirable if the application is distributed as a part of an open source collabaration project of AI applications.

Lazarus666 07:59, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)