Turing's Argument Analysis

In Turing’s paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” he presents the Turing test, which examines whether a machine can display intelligent behavior equal to the intelligent behavior of a human. Turing also ponders the question, “can machines think,” as he is an advocate of artificial intelligence. Turing states the nine common objections against artificial intelligence and attempts to disprove them. The most convincing objection to artificial intelligence is objection three, the mathematical objection. The mathematical objection talks about how there are limits to what questions a computer based on logic can answer. In an explicit argument, it would look something like this: humans have no limits to what logical questions they can
This argument is the strongest because it shows how computers cannot answer everything and that they have limitations. If computers are limited to what questions they can answer, then they do not have artificial intelligence and do not have the ability to think. This argument also declares that humans do not have limitations regarding the questions they can answer and therefore, they have intelligent behavior superior to machines. Turing’s response mainly refutes the first premise of the mathematical objection as he states that no one has ever proved if human beings have similar limitations as computers. His explicit argument would be that some humans have limitations regarding the logical questions they can answer. Computers are also limited to the logical questions they can answer. Computers and humans are equally limited in the logical questions they can answer; therefore, they have the same intelligent behavior. If the original argument was rephrased the way it was in the previous paragraph, then Turing would mainly disagree with the first premise. His response would be phrased a little differently by saying that humans can have limits to what logical questions they can answer. Computers are also limited to what logical questions they