Turing test Essays

  • The Turing Test

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    Intelligence, but according to Whitby the most mentioned idea about the goal of AI is provided by the Turing Test. This test is also called the imitation game, since it is basically a game in which a computer imitates a conversating human. In an analysis of the Turing Test I will focus on its features, its historical background and the evaluation of its validity and importance. First of all, the Test itself doesn’t really have any complex features. As described by Haugeland, the procedure of the game

  • The Turing Test: An Overview

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    The Turing Test: An Overview In this essay, I describe in detail a hypothetical test contemporarily known as the Turing test along with it’s respective objective. In addition, I examine a distinguished objection to the test, and Turing’s consequential response to it. Created by English mathematician Alan Turing, the Turing test (formerly known as the imitation game) is a behavioral approach that assesses a system’s ability to think. In doing so, it can determine whether or not that system is intelligent

  • What is the Turing Test, and Why is it so Difficult to Pass?

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    it with thinking capabilities that are at par with humans. If such an intelligent machine is ever created, how can we test whether it can think on its own? How can it be certified as Artificial Intelligence? Alan Mathison Turing, a computer analyst, mathematician and cryptoanalyst, provided a simple solution to this problem. In a paper published in the Journal Mind, in 1950, Turing suggests that rather than creating complications by using the word “think”, defining it, or asking whether machines can

  • Technological advances

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    a conscious and the structure of the human body. However, can machines really have a conscious like humans? Similarly, Alan Turing and John Searle both debated whether machines have a conscious or not. This discussion will be based upon the explanation of Turing and Searle and why I believe machines cannot have a conscious. In "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" by Turing, he uses the imitation game as an example of how machines can think. The imitation game is when a man and a woman is separated

  • Turing, Searle, and Artificial Intelligence

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    The conditions of the present scenario are as follows: a machine, Siri*, capable of passing the Turing test, is being insulted by a 10 year old boy, whose mother is questioning the appropriateness of punishing him for his behavior. We cannot answer the mother's question without speculating as to what A.M. Turing and John Searle, two 20th century philosophers whose views on artificial intelligence are starkly contrasting, would say about this predicament. Furthermore, we must provide fair and balanced

  • The Chinese Room Argument

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    John Searle formulated the Chinese Room Argument in the early 80’s as an attempt to prove that computers are not cognitive operating systems. In short though the immergence of artificial and computational systems has rapidly increased the infinite possibility of knowledge, Searle uses the Chinese room argument to shown that computers are not cognitively independent. John Searle developed two areas of thought concerning the independent cognition of computers. These ideas included the definition

  • Searle's Argument Analysis

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    Introduction The object of this essay is to depict as to whether or not artificial intelligence (A.I.) is possible from the use of arguments by Alan Turing, John Searle, and Jerry Fodor. To accomplish the task at hand; I shall firstly, describe the Turing Test and explain how it works, secondly, describe Functionalism and to detail on how it allows for future A.I. Thirdly, I will describe and explain Searle’s argument and example of the “Chinese room”, and finally I shall describe and explain a

  • Artificial Sentience

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    There is some scientific support for the idea that computers may one day become powerful enough to simulate consciousness. For one, computing power has increased exponentially over the past decades. Secondly, a Turing machine - a theoretical model of a computer, devised by Alan Turing, which would be able to compute mathematical functions without any of the limitations that apply to physical machines - would theoretically also be able to compute consciousness. This, of course, relies on the assumption

  • Strong Artificial Intelligence

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    The idea of artificial intelligence has always been a very fascinating phenomenon among our society. It paved the way for a new genre in the entertainment industry that brought forth ideas of human like robots. In the acclaimed movie, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, an artificial intelligent robot of the future named David, designed to experience love, is sent to a family to replace their human comatose son. As the comatose son recovers, the family no longer need David. David, craving for the motherly

  • Analysis Of EVE Of Destruction

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    his website. Nathan decides to use the information from his users because he wants to emulate her behavior as that of a human, so he uses all that his users search as a way to determine human thought and capture that within Ava. Using the turning the test, Caleb must determine if Ava was able to manipulate him into thinking that she was not AI. However, after a while of Caleb and Ava being together, she falls in love with him.

  • The Chinese Room Argument Analysis

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    John Searle is an American philosopher who is best known for his thought experiment on The Chinese Room Argument. This argument is used in order to show that computers cannot process what they comprehend and that what computers do does not explain human understanding. The question of “Do computers have the ability to think?” is a very conflicting argument that causes a lot of debate between philosophers in the study of Artificial Intelligence—a belief that machines can imitate human performance—

  • Alan Turing Test: Can Machines Think?

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    In 1950, Alan Turing (1912-1954) introduced the “Turing Test”, an evaluation of a machine’s ability to show intelligent behavior indistinguishable from a human’s. This made me ask, “Can machines think?” To start, we need to define the meaning of the terms “think” and “machine”. In order to think, you’d require creativity, the qualification to remember experiences, and the ability to make rational decisions. A machine has several parts that apply mechanical power. Each part has a definite function

  • An Analysis Of Love And Sex With Robots

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    Svilpis, science fiction works as a “literature of ideas,” functioning as inspiration for theorists, scientists, and technological engineers (430). In robotic intimacies, the Turing Test is renowned for developing a test for measuring the intelligence of an artificial intelligence (AI). It can be assumed that the Turing Test will become more relevant as robotic technology advances, with authors like Rodney Brooks claiming that we are in a “robotics revolution” (10). With the inevitability of the

  • Can Computers Think?

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    appropriate to say that a human can be replaced by a computer? I believe that not all humans will be replaced by a computer, but I do think that a computer will be able to do many of the same things that a human can already do. John R. Searle and Alan Turing are two philosophers that I will be relating to in order to examine the likelihood of a computer being able to “think” or not “think” and I will look into how a computer and a human have more in common than what “humans” actually think. Also, with

  • Analysis of HAL's guilt in 2001: A Space Odyssey

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    Analysis of HAL's guilt in 2001: A Space Odyssey In a court of law, killing while mentally disabled, killing under orders and killing in self-defense are sufficient justifications for taking another’s life. With this in mind, was HAL justified in killing the crewmembers of the discovery, or were Hal’s actions murderous and should he be brought to trial? Can Hal be blamed? The computer basically has 3 excuses for killing the crewmembers of the Discovery. First, Hal was disabled. Second, Hal was

  • The Morality and Utility of Artificial Intelligence

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    agreement whether or not AI has succeeded, is achievable, or is an unreachable dream. In considering the definitions and implications of Artificial Intelligence, many philosophers have reached extremely different conclusions. Alan Turing, author of the Turing Test, believed that an intelligent machine would be able to imitate perfectly a human. Margaret Boden, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Sussex, contends that a machine is intelligent if it possesses and displays

  • Importance of Philosophy in the Modern World

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    And although I can only vaguely glimpse the psychology which underlies Kant, it seems to be highly questionable. (In my view, application of Kant's epistemology and metaphysics could never produce an artificial intelligence capable of passing a Turing test.) And so, it seems to me, the best way that a philosopher can keep from being dated (not in the romantic sense; many seem to have no problem with that) is to be aware of scientific knowledge, and integrate it into philosophy. Of course, this

  • Our Fascination, Hopes, and Fears.

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    defined using the term intelligence. [3] One of the most challenging approaches facing experts is building systems that mimic the behavior of the human brain, made up of billions of neurons, and arguably the most complex matter in the universe. Alan Turing, a British computer scientist, stated that a computer would deserves to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. This generally involves borrowing characteristics from human intelligence, and applying them

  • alan turing

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    memory subroutines, the Turning Machine, the Turing Test, and the application of algorithms to computers are all ideas somehow related to this man. Alan Mathison Turing was born in Paddington, London, on June 23, 1912. He was a precocious child and began his interests in science and mathematics at a young age, but was never concerned about other right-brain classes such as English. This continued until an important friend of his passed away and set Turing on a path to achieve what his friend could

  • The Imitation Game: The Story Of Alan Turing

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    on the lesser known code breaking done by Alan Turing in the war. His team’s success helped the British foil the German’s war plans and had a major impact on the outcome of the war. The Imitation Game tells the story of Alan Turing and his team’s codebreaking in a way that is a useable source of learning in the classroom because it shows the work and intelligence that happen behind the scenes and before the battles. The movie introduces Alan Turing, a genius mathematician from Cambridge University