As a well-known literary theorist, Fish is a contributor to the “Opinionator” column in the New York Times. Furthermore, he worked as a former professor at Duke University and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Chicago. Throughout this article, Fish expresses his reservation of artificial intelligence systems’ cognitive abilities by explaining how Watson functions in actuality. The author furthermore attempts to shed light on the question of if Watson understands anything like human.…
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…
A: The spirit of mechanism made Hull think, that behaviorists should refer to their patients as machines, he also argued that machines would one day think and display other human cognitive functions.…
Strong artificial intelligence is the view that suitable programmed computers can understand language and possess the same mental capabilities as humans (Stanford). Weak artificial intelligence is the view that computers are only useful in some areas because they can mimic human mental abilities (Stanford). In 1980 John Searle published “The Chinese Room Argument” to prove that artificial intelligence appears to understand language but it actually does not understand. The argument is set in a scenario in which a computer follows a program written in the computing language. A human types Chinese symbols but does not actually understand Chinese and because the computer does what the human does it does not show understanding of Chinese either. The Turing test was created in 1950 by Alan Turing to deal with the question can machines think. It is also known as the Imitation Game and is comprised of a person, machine and interrogator. The interrogator is in a separate room from the person and the machine and the purpose of the game is for the interrogator to determine which one is the person and which is the machine. The person and the machine are labeled X and Y and the interrogator must ask them questions and the machine is trying to make the interrogator think that it is the person. “I believe that in about fifty years’ time it will be possible to program computers, with a storage capacity of about 109, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 percent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning. I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted” said Turing (Stanford). The test may not be good because it only bases intelligence off of being able to…
In John F. Kasson’s “Civilizing the Machine,” Kasson enlightens his audience that cities did not create factories, factories created cities. During the dawn of the British Industrial Revolution, the Americans began to adopt their own form of this event through the creations of factories and water-powered generators which, at the beginning of the time, revolved around the New England/ Boston area. Kasson explains through his article of the various entrepreneurs who founded these first factories and the then goes on to describe the positive and negative effects this had on people of these areas. On a more broad perspective, he argues for claim that this first step towards modern day industrialization, although it accommodated to the region, changed the land significantly. Kasson also infers that the protests of this event led to the growing population of Irish.…
Martin Davis suggests that in order to prove whether or not the algorithm existed or not, Alan Turing analyzed and simplified how a human goes through the problem when using a pencil and paper. (Davis 1) Turing’s thought process while inventing made him unlike other mathematicians because he was the only one to consider basing his code on the human thought process. Jim Holt acknowledges that in the machine “over this tape a little scanner travels back and forth, one square at a time writing and erasing 0’s and 1’s. The scanners action at any moment depends on the symbol in the square it’s over and the state it is in--its “state of mind,” so to speak.”…
Another one of Dr. Turing professional developments was the Turing test. He used the game of chess to show that a computer could be viewed as an artificial brain. He began his work in a time when computing machines were not capable of performing complex calculations and people that worked on computing machines were called computers. The beginning of his Turing test were on paper and he would play chess using a printed version of his code. Dr. Turing’s program–Turbochamp–was capable of playing a human in chess, but not winning. Dr. Turing died before he could see his programming completed on a…
Artificial intelligence is a complex subject that requires some background information to fully understand. One of the earliest definitions of "true" artificial intelligence was proposed by Alan Turing with the Turing Test. The idea behind this test was to have a human ask both a computer and a human a series of questions and then see if the tester could tell which was the computer. The AI did not necessarily need to answer all the questions correctly, it just had to give an answer similar to that a human would give. The test would also be done via text so that the computer would not have problems with mimicking human speech. Very few AIs have passed the test with the first occurring in 2012 as it was judged to be human 52 percent of the time. The other major factor in determining a true artificial intelligence was the Chinese Room Experiments by John Searle as an expansion of the Turing Test. In this experiment, Searle wanted to test whether an intelligence was actually interpreting language or just…
The author’s main idea of this article is mainly to say how the supercomputer was a fair match between the two. The computer has ways to answer questions that humans have no way of doing. The computer can answer questions within seconds and even milliseconds when the question is asked. It has a super speed ability to answer these questions, which gives no time for the competitor to even have a chance to answer the questions given. So, when the competitor has no time to even have an attempt to answer the question, there is no way to win. “Watson” is so smart that almost every question that is asked, he answers correctly.…
The movie Is about Alan Turing, a genius British mathematician, Cryptographer, and computer pioneer who helped Allies to win the Second World War by breaking Enigma-a German code machine. During his days in boarding school, Alan was the target of bullies because he so concerned with neatness and order. And casted out as a deviant. From a Marx’s, conflict theory interprets society as a struggle for power between groups engaging in conflict between a dominant group and a subordinate group, it’s clear that Alan’s peers bullied, due to maybe popularity or fear, are the dominant group, and those like Alan are found at the bottom.…
In our world today, technology has increased a lot. People have different opinion nowadays. There are a lot of ways to test machine intelligence and I think by playing jeopardy is a good way to test machine intelligence. Jeopardy is an American television quiz show and it can ask about anything. Watson is a machine and it's made for answering question.…
“Can machines think?” is one of the big questions that are asked in this film. Alan says, “Of course machines can’t think, as people do. A machine is different from a person. They think differently.” Most people would say that machines cannot think. Some people would say that machines think differently. Often thinking differently is seen as a bad thing but thinking differently does not mean that something or someone is not thinking. Human brains think differently as well because some people like ice cream, while others do not; some are allergic to pollen, while other are not. Turing’s paper “The Imitation Game”…
In the article “Can Computers Think,” John Searle makes the claim that computers, while they can simulate understanding or emotions, cannot think in the same way that a human mind can. John Searle objects to what he calls “strong AI,” the claim that the brain is just one type of hardware that can “run” the program that is essentially the human mind, and thus that if computers cannot currently think, they will one day be able to. Searle supports his claim on the basis that while computers run entirely syntactically, viewing information as abstract symbols with no meaning and reacting to them based off of their shape, the human mind has the additional layer of semantics that can not be obtained from syntax alone. Thus, John Searle proves that no matter how advanced technology becomes, a computer will never think in the same way that a human can.…
In response to French’s criticism on how the Turing Test is lacking in terms of evaluating machine intelligence accurately, Dale Jacquette criticizes his argument. “It is an empirical matter whether all intelligence is, or is not, sufficiently like human intelligence to be indistinguishable in verbal behavioral expression from that of intelligent humans. It is an open question to be decided by science rather than by a priori philosophical analogies and thought experiments” (Jacquette 68). Jacquette argues that the best way to measure intelligence is verbally because language can tell us many things about an individual such as how they interact and communicate with others, and the Turing Test does that. He also notes that science and philosophical theories are two different things, and French is getting them mixed up.…
Today, the imitation game is known as the Turing Test and there have been some changes made to it. Instead of the scenario with the man and woman, it has been simplified to a person trying to determine if they are speaking with another human or a computer.…