Purpose
- to get introduced to one of the biggest debates in the philosophy of AI by reading one of the seminal articles
- to gather material for our in-class debate on Monday of week 3
Read
Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing (October 1950). Mind LIX (236): 433–460. If you google the title, you can also find other html versions online.
Questions
Here are some questions to guide your reading. You don't have to answer these questions in writing. However, you will have to hand in an essay arguing your position for our in-class debate. So, take some notes now that you can use for the preparation of the debate later on.
- How does Turing's test to decide whether a machine is intelligent work?
- Do you think this test works? Why? Why not? Can you think of ways in which a machine that is not intelligent could pass the test?
- If you were the judge, what kinds of questions would you ask to find out which of your conversation partners is a machine?