The Turing Test

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The Turing Test

• Who was Alan Turing?
• Turings paper first claims that thinking is
  computable. Why is this so important?
• What is the imitation game?
• Should we replace the question Can machines
  think?
• Our speach will change in the future. Why?

2
Turing Test (cont. 1)

• Scientists do not go from well established fact
  to well established fact, never being influenced
  the subjective, non-proven conjecture.
• By the end of the 20th century, an interogator
  will not choose correctly more than 70 of the
  time.

3
Turing Test (cont. 2)

• What of the competition in Boston?
• If a computer passes the Turing test, are there
  civil rights questions? (pg. 70)
• What of the people who were judged to be
  machines?
• What of the restrictions?

4
Turing Test (cont. 3)

• Can computer scientists recognize the machine
  faster than the average joe? If so, how?
• Superior intelligence?

5
The Turing Test (cont. 4)

• Winner in 1997
• PROGRAM Did you see that story on CNN last
  night about the lesbian couple who came out at a
  White House party on Sunday?
• JUDGE05 NO. I just came in yesterday. I'm still
  kind of jet-lagged.
• PROGRAM Ellen Degeneres was one of them - she
  was kissing her lover...

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John Searle Computers Can't Think

• There is a difference between pretending to think
  and actually thinking.
• The Turing Test is not useful at all.
• When is a computer a tool, and when is it truely
  a mind?
• Is Shank's program an example of a machine
  understanding?

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Searle (cont. 1)

• Does the Chinese room refute Turing and Shank's
  claims?
• ... whatever purely formal principles you put
  into the computer, they will not be sufficient
  for understanding, since a human will be able to
  follow the formal principles without
  understanding anything. (pg 76)