The Turing Test Who was Alan Turing Turings

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?

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 20 th century, an interogator will not choose correctly more than 70% of the time.

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?

Turing Test (cont. 3) ● ● Can computer scientists recognize the machine faster than the average joe? If so, how? Superior intelligence?

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? – JUDGE 05: 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. . . ”

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?

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)