Raise three critical questions that in some way analyze or challenge aspects of

Question

Raise three critical questions that in some way analyze or challenge aspects of each persons position.

The Turing Test is used to figure out whether a machine or computer has the ability to think, and therefore has the capacity for intelligence. The idea is to take two people and a computer, put them into 3 separate rooms, have them communicate only through text with the goal being to figure out which one is the computer. The computer passes the Turing Test if it’s able to communicate just like the humans; in a way that they can’t tell it’s a computer. I think that the Turing Test is not capable of truly proving artificial intelligence. As was stated in The Chinese Room Argument, the Turing Test only tests the computer’s ability to use our language, not necessarily understand it. It’s similar to a parrot saying “Hello! How are you?” when you enter the room. The parrot is using our words correctly, but it has no conscious understanding of what it’s “saying.” To understand and to comprehend language as we humans comprehend it, is, I think, the true test of intelligence. Otherwise, the machine is simply mimicking us. Instead of using formulas to calculate numbers, it will use formulas to calculate words, and is that really any different then what we already have?

Explanation / Answer

There is a list of things that some people have claimed that machines will never be able to do and so it would differentiated from humans in following ways:

(1) be friendly;

(2) to have an initiative;

(3) to have a sense of humor;

(4) be the subject of one's own thoughts;

(5) make someone fall in love with other;

(7) learn from experiences;

(8) use words wisely;

Related Questions

Navigate

• Browse (All)
• Browse R
• Subjects

Integrity-first tutoring: explanations and feedback only — we do not complete graded work. Learn more.