Talk:Computing Machinery and Intelligence
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[edit] Needs a section describing the influence
It would be nice to have links to examples of work in the field that build upon issues raised first in Turing's paper. Maybe a link to Terry Winograd would be a good start. JWSchmidt 15:26, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
I deleted:
- His closing remark in the text was:
- We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
- At this time, semantic in linguistic was not a theme to be discussed. After this article, however, things change dramatically. It was the idea of cognition as computation that reanimates the science of semantic.
It was found confusing since August 2006. I don't really get it, and it seems a bit of a non sequitur. Perhaps the author means semantics became a popular topic in computational linguistics? Semantics doesn't mention Turing. Regardless, it's a bit obscure, and could use a reference. Kaicarver 11:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Turing's answers to objections moved here from Turing test
I've pulled the "objections" section in line with Turing's paper (by fixing some content, adding the missing ones, and putting them in the same order Turing presented them in.) I removed these two, since they appear to be original research, and don't appear in Turing's paper.
- Mechanical Objections: A sufficiently fast machine with sufficiently large memory could be programmed with a large enough number of human questions and human responses to deliver a human answer to almost every question, and a vague random answer to the few questions not in its memory. This would simulate human response in a purely mechanical way. Psychologists have observed that most humans have a limited number of verbal responses.
- Data Processing Objection: Machines process data bit by bit. Humans process data holistically. In this view, even if a machine appears human in every way, to treat it as human is to indulge in anthropomorphic thinking. (Recent advances in parallel computing and fuzzy logic based systems raise interesting questions regarding this specific objection [citation needed].)
I also added some information on more recent versions of Turing's objections. ---- CharlesGillingham 06:07, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
By the way, the first objection here is someone's rediscovery of Ned Block's Blockhead argument, and the second is what Turing called "the Argument from the Informality of Behavior". ---- CharlesGillingham 09:35, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
One last thought: I suggested above that this section should be moved to Computing machinery and intelligence. Any objections? Until I do, I'm going to leave some duplicate references. ---- CharlesGillingham 09:35, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
