Many kinds of human speech act are relative to social institutions that change, and the exchange of speech acts among computer programs will often involve the design of new institutions prescribing the effects of speech acts.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Many speech act properties are independent of whether the agent is human or machine.claim0.844
• Many uses of speech acts do not require human-level intelligence for programs to perform them.claim0.834
  Key contention of paper: Elephant 2000 can support varying levels of AI capability without requiring full human intelligence.
• Speech acts are necessary in common sense informatic situations where agents with different goals and knowledge interact.claim0.819
  McCarthy's fundamental position: most important features of speech acts are independent of whether agents are human or machine.
• Human use of speech acts involves intelligence. Elephant 2000 is on the borderline of AI, but the article emphasizes the Elephant usages that do not require AI.claim0.801
  Seventh abstract claim.
• Speech Acts in Programmingconcept0.788
• Elephant speech acts are a step above strings, because the higher levels of the speech acts have a meaning independent of the application program.claim0.785
  Advantage of speech acts over plain strings.
• We may need to consider joint speech acts such as making an agreement.hypothesis0.782
  Speculation about future extensions.
• Which speech act uses require AI/intentionality vs which do not?question0.777