Lecture 9

Readings due Today:

• Computing Machinery and Intelligence - Turing
• A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Project on AI - McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester, Shannon
• Lighthill Report and Replies - Lighthill, Sutherland, Needham, Longuet-Higgins, Michie

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Turing (1950)

Important historical note on Turing Test:

• As Presented: highly gendered (man or woman?)
• Modern Conception: free of gender (human or not?)

Turing test is operational, freed of philosophical concerns and social constructs

Chinese Room Argument (CRA) Caveat:

• Someone rotely doing the instructions cannot be said to be thinking, but passes Turing test!
• Conclusion: Turing test isn't what you think it is

Was Turing prescient or has everyone just been following Turing since 1950?

Lots of modern ideas: Monte Carlo, Chaos Theory, etc.

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