Can a Machine Know? Martin Eddy 6/5/10 TOK Essay Word Count: 1213 In today’s day and age‚ the question “Can a Machine Know?” is very important and relevant to what we are doing with machines in making them more and more humanlike and capable of human functions. A machine‚ as defined on Dictionary.com “is an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions‚ used in the performance of some kind of work.” That seems simple enough‚ not very complicated at all. But then if
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Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation Executive Summary Company: Gainesboro Corporation is a company that began in 1923 as a manufacturer of metal machinery parts which was in high demand during the Second World War. Since then‚ Gainesboro has changed with the times‚ entering into the machine tool industry in 1975 and most recently has transitioned into computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) equipment manufacturer. Recently‚ two events have events have taken place
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Tools and Machines The development of machines began in the 1890 ’s when the first steam tractor and combine were made in California (Meij 3). There was a need to make more efficient use of the labor; therefore‚ machines were developed ("Agripedia" 2). By 1914‚ the combine started to spread outside of California to the rest of the United States (Meij 4). Then in 1928 it spread to Great Britain and then to the Netherlands after World War II (Meij 4). The development of these machines was affected
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INDUSTRY PROFILE HISTORY OF WASHING MACHINE Washing machine made their mark in the Indian market in the eighties. Videocon was the first company in India to introduce washing machine. Over the years it has remained market leader‚ with an overall market share of 35%‚ by introducing flexible strategies. Initially‚ the challenge was to ran away homemakers from their traditional method of washing clothes‚ but then‚ owing to high prices‚ the market appeared to be limited only to upper income urban
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In the story “The Machine Stops” there were many fantastic happenings that in the time it was written in 1906 people never gave it any merit of it possibly happening. Although‚ it is a story of fiction written in the past it seems to foreshadow what is very possibly an outcome for the United States of today. For example‚ in the story everyone has become distant and although they have the means to travel and have a face to face encounter with other people they would rather sit in the rooms with little
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Political machines of fraud and bribery Introduction: Lincoln Steffens published the “shame of the cities” witch was a book based on the corruption in the 1900’s. By 1900‚ many cities in the south of America were controlled by political machines. These organizations consisted of full-time politicians whose main goal was to get and keep politicians power and money and also influence that went into it. In the 1900’s‚ machines were usually associated with
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Can machines think? Turing didn’t describe the human vs. machine game right away‚ to make a point. He didn’t just flip a coin to see what he was going to write about. His point is simple. If you can distinguish between a man and a machine‚ in the game‚ you could come to the conclusion that the machine doesn’t think‚ right? WRONG! He introduced the idea of the man vs. woman game to prove that making such a conclusion is not in fact a conclusion‚ but an assumption. If it was a fact that‚ if you
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The Time Traveller - The Time Traveller’s name is never given. Apparently the narrator wants to protect his identity. The Time Traveller is an inventor. He likes to speculate on the future and the underlying structures of what he observes. His house is in Richmond‚ a suburb of London. The Narrator - The narrator‚ Mr. Hillyer‚ is the Time Traveller’s dinner guest. His curiosity is enough to make him return to investigate the morning after the first time travel. Weena - Weena is one of the Eloi
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carrying out those intentions in a bad way. The person then potentially becomes obsessed with the idea and it controls him or her. The result is the dystopia either being destroyed or the main character being unable to change it. The Machine Stops is about a machine that was made by humans who live underground because of the dangerous conditions on the surface.
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