Turing machine

engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable.” (McCarthy J.) However for the purposes of looking at the question of if Artificial Intelligence can be conscious this definition will not be used. Merriam-Webster defines artificial intelligence as “the power of a machine to copy intelligent…

In the Euthyphro dilemma, Socrates poses the question, does God approve of things because they are moral or are things moral because God approves of them? The former suggests that God merely reinforces what is already intrinsically moral and that his commands are inessential to determining the nature of morality. This option does not explain the roots of morality and also presents limitations on God’s sovereignty, but the latter option also presents substantial problems as well. God, in the…

intelligence" attacks the very core of the human spirit, the pride of our race. The very thought of an "intelligent" computer that is on par, or more likely superior, to our own brain sends chills down the spine. And others, such as Turing, tried to settle the issue of machine intelligence altogether. The movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence contains a crux of philosophical inquiry directly relating to both Descartes’s…

This Documentary looks at four brilliant mathematicians; Cantor, Boltzmann, Godel, and Turing for their groundbreaking contributions to mathematics, but also for the mental anguish and personal tragedy in their lives. How big is infinity? What is thermodynamics? These seemingly simple questions are what drove four brilliant mathematicians to insanity and ultimately suicide. “Dangerous Knowledge” delves into the deeper side of mathematics by trying to understand nature through mathematics,…

Rachels, the author Guided us through the process in which the topic of “Could a Machine Think?” Was a question that would arise many arguments and claims to prove its possibilities. The main points to this chapter were the arguments and objections that were trying to answer the following question “Could Machines Think?”. These arguments consisted of the Piecemeal-Replacement Argument, The Tipping Point Objection, The Turing Test, and the Chinese Room argument. This chapter is composed out…

communication we know today would not be at our disposal without Artificial Intelligence. There are many parts to Artificial Intelligence and it was a long journey for it to become as popular as it is today. Artificial Intelligence (AI) means that a machine is able to take in its surroundings and compute what is happening. It is a computer system that is able to do exactly what humans can do. But, due to the fact that the human brain cannot be manmade, the program used for many of these…

with the environment, then could it have thoughts. The answer is no because it’s just another way the robot can manipulate the syntax to come up with an accurate response but still lacks understanding. The System Reply is when the human working the machine doesn’t know Chinese but the system does. This still proves his point that computers don’t have mental states because the computer is only working with the syntax and creating an output based off the input. Stimulation Vs. Duplication is the…

In 1950, Alan Turing published his groundbreaking work “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” which said that all digital computers, regardless of how they are put together, are equivalent in their computing abilities (442). This breakthrough in computer science has since fostered immense intellectual growth in artificial intelligence. For more than half a century, scientists have been working toward creating machines that are intelligent in the same way human beings are intelligent. Scholars…

intelligence is used in almost every technology sold on the market today, and engineers have only scratched the surface of what machines can do. Allowing these advancements to continue will not only diminish the requirement for human intelligence; it will surpass any need for it altogether. The ancient expression goes, “if you want something done right, do it yourself,” but if a machine could do it twice as fast with double the accuracy then why waste your time? Human intelligence…

people acting intelligently. “Thinking humanly” completely depends on the internal activities of the brain and cognitive science plays a major role in predicting or resembling the human level general intelligence. ACTING HUMANLY-The turing test approach “Can machines behave intelligently?” - If the response from the computer is something similar to…