CAN COMPUTERS THINK

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CAN COMPUTERS THINK?
Rob Gauger Cis55-Section614
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Human Brain

• Learn and adapt without the aid of
• others
• Perform multiple tasks
• Convey knowledge to others
• Can take in knowledge and reason about the World
• Has common sense

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Who is Faster?

• The computer is much faster in raw speed
• The brain is much more parallel
• Recognizing a face for example
• Brain in less than 1 second, in a few hundred
  cycles accurately
• Computer would do it in billions of cycles in
  under a second but, less accurately
• The computer is less accurate
• Brain is about 1 billion times faster overall

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What Makes a Computer Different from a human?

• The brain is a living thing
• A computer is a machine built by humans
• Humans think for themselves
• Machines have instructions they carry out, or are
  given a commend to carry out

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Will computers be smarter than humans one day?

• Biological evolution is a slow process
• Human brain has not changed much in the past
  5,000 years
• Computers have only been around
• for 150 years!

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Interesting Questions

• Is the brain nothing more than a complex computer
  program?
• What does it mean to be human?
• If we created a computer that was convincing in
  claiming it was human, would it be human?

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Turing Test

• The Turing test, devised in 1950 by the British
  mathematician and logician Alan Turing
• Imagine that you're sitting alone in a room with
  a teletype machine that is connected at the other
  end to either a person or a computer. If no
  amount of questioning or conversation allows you
  to tell which it is, then you have to concede
  that a machine can think

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What Does it mean to Think?

• thinking is something
• going on in the brain all right, but
• it is not computation at all thinking is
• Something holistic, organic,
• and mysterious."

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SOWE RETURN TO THE QUESTIONCAN COMPUTERS
THINK?
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• No, if one defines thinking as an activity
  exclusive to humans. Any such behavior in
  machines, therefore, would have to be called
  thinking-like behavior.
• Yes, if one admits that the question is to be
  answered by experiment and observation, comparing
  the behavior of the computer with that behavior
  of human beings to which the term thinking is
  generally applied.

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After my research I found that although people
have different views on this topic, some say
that computers can think, others strongly
disagree. Although I dont have a strong
opinion, I feel that at this point time
computers dont have the power to think, they
simply do what humans instruct them to do.

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