Speech Acts in Programming

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• 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.claim0.788
  Claim about designing institutions for program speech acts.
• Speech acts are necessary in common sense informatic situations where agents with different goals and knowledge interact.claim0.774
  McCarthy's fundamental position: most important features of speech acts are independent of whether agents are human or machine.
• Many speech act properties are independent of whether the agent is human or machine.claim0.762
• What must be true in order that a speech act of a given kind be successfully performed?question0.754
  Key question shared with philosophers about successful speech acts.
• Many uses of speech acts do not require human-level intelligence for programs to perform them.claim0.753
  Key contention of paper: Elephant 2000 can support varying levels of AI capability without requiring full human intelligence.
• Communication inputs and outputs are in an I-O language whose sentences are meaningful speech acts approximately in the sense of philosophers and linguists. These include questions, answers, offers, acceptances, declinations, requests, permissions and promises.claim0.745
  First key claim in the abstract.
• joint speech actsconcept0.743
  Speech acts like making an agreement that involve multiple parties.
• Elephant speech acts are a step above strings, because the higher levels of the speech acts have a meaning independent of the application program.claim0.738
  Advantage of speech acts over plain strings.