In the experiment done by Searle, he compares the operations of a computer to that of how the human mind works. He uses “strong Al” and “weak Al” to explain his concept. My belief as a human being is that life itself is a mystery that only God can explain and compare to any other living thing that He has created. I therefore do not believe anything made by the human capacity can be compared to that of God’s creation.…
In the article, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, Turning explores communication between machines and animals. Turning proposes a test called “The Imitation game”, in which at first did not involve any type of computer intelligence, but just a man and a woman. Turning then proposed a modification of the game which involved a human (of any gender) and a computer on the side. The judge’s main goal is to decide which contestant is human and which is the machine (Peters 235). Peters connects the Turning Test to Judith Butler claiming that this game is an example of what Judith butler would call gender trouble. Within the game, the idea of gender seems more prominent than the actual difference between a machine and a…
It’s understandable how important computers are in our life. However, we shouldn’t let them take over our life. “In the past the man has been first”, and it should stay like that. Yet, there are people who trust machines more than their fellow man. Carr believes that admiring modern technology is fine, but we should praise it. We are in charge of the computer, and not the other way around. The web should be used to deepen the thoughts of our brains instead of letting the shallowness of our thoughts deepen googles search…
Once a perpetually failing student nicknamed "Terrible Tommy", Thomas Watson Jr. grew up to become one of the most influential people in the world of technology. As a young adult Watson suffered from lack of self-confidence and depression, he even cried when his father told him he was to inherit International Business Machine Company or IBM. No one could have guessed that not only would “Terrible Tommy” take over IBM, but, he would come to surpass his father and bring the world into the computer age.…
Option #1: Explain why the authors below do not fear the advent of artificial intelligence. Write an informative essay that focuses primarily on the performance of IBM’s Watson on the quiz show Jeopardy. Feel free to reference a pop culture movie or TV show where artificial intelligence goes awry as a contrast to the articles below.…
In the article “Opinion: Can artificial intelligence be ethical?” published by Project Syndicate, professor Peter Singer tries to persuade his readers that with how AI has progressed, with its advantages and its unknowns, it could result in immoral consequences so we have to try to teach machines how to behave ethically. Singer states that “AlphaGo was designed to win by playing a huge number of games against other programs and adopting the best strategies that proved successful” (par. 3) saying that the computer program was able to surpass human talent in the game Go in a matter of a few years even though the game Go had “more possible moves than there are atoms in the universe” (par. 2). Singer reasons that although this machine worked out…
This objection is the sum of the systems reply, the robot reply, and the brain simulator reply. This is a powerful objection because it incorporates three other objections and combines them into one. When all combined the objection asks you too “imagine a robot with a brain shaped computer lodged in its cranial cavity, imagine the computer programmed with all the synapses of a human brain, imagine the whole behavior of the robot is indistinguishable, from human behavior, and now think of the whole thing as a unified system and not just as a computer with inputs and outputs.” In essence this robot would be indistinguishable from human beings for the most part.…
#1 How powerful is Watson? Describe its technology. Why does it require so much powerful hardware?…
machines could actually learn, but one of the most important things about him is the fact…
When he ended his life, he wouldn’t have expected the reaction the world had to his machine and what his machine led to. Alan Turing’s short term plan to decrypt enigma, remodeled the idea of what a computer can do, and…
against the TV quiz show’s two biggest all-time champions (Jackson). Developed by IBM Research, Watson is able to categorize vast volumes of information and using sophisticated algorithms built for searching known facts (Jackson). Watson can then answer questions in natural language (Markoff). Watson is an information seeking tool that’s capable of understanding human enquires in order to deliver that content through a naturally flowing dialogue. Watson consistently outperformed its human opponents on the show, winning $1,000,000 that was donated to charity (Markoff). Multivac, in The Last Question , is a similar computational machine, but what makes it ultimately superior than any computer we have today is its ability to actually think. Watson can only answer questions with known facts. It can’t answer the unknown any better than pure speculations. Multivac was eventually able to reverse entropy, creating the world anew…
Hofstadter, DR. (1984). The Prisoner’s Dilemma computer tournaments and the evolution of cooperation. In Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern. (pp. 715-734). New York: Basic Books.…
If we alter our definition of what a mind is to a broader ground of just ‘thinking’ we stumble across the imitation game example used by Mr. Turing. Turing was a mathematician that made contributions to the theory of computation around the 1950’s. He used an example of the imitation game to prove that computers could not possibly have minds. Though he was in a time where the first meager computers were invented, Mr. Turing was spot on.…
In the end, Churchland rejects the Turing test as a “sufficient condition for conscious intelligence.” They base this conclusion off…
Have you ever been uncertain about the world you live in, and the reality of the truth? The fear of knowing is a common response to most of what we do not know. The real answers make it apparent, that some wish not to understand the truth about everything. Society has made life so self-explanatory that the unknown has now become a mission to be kept a secret. Some are in fear of finding the truth, due to the fact it could have substantial affects on the entire human race. The world as we know it could prosper or fail with any new attempts in high-risk technology. Science and new advancements in artificial intelligence have made it accessible to finding out more than humans have every imagined possible. The development of the computer was a long strenuous process, which took many trials and errors to make effective as seen now in the twentieth century. It seems very unreal that humans would enable machines with so much ability to think evil, or is it? The reality of this topic is that mechanical machines have proven to adapt features of their own if controlled by certain conductors. Artificial intelligence is a field of its own with many successful milestones and it continues to thrive in the twentieth century as a major aid in the future.…