Transcript If You Are Just Joining Us

Can Computers Think?
• Turing test: if a computer performs like
a human being, it can be said to think
Alan Turing
(1912-54)
• Thinking or understanding involves
more than syntax (i.e., following a
program or manipulating symbols
according to rules as in the Chinese
John Searle
Room); it involves a semantics, being
(1932 - )
aware of what following the program
means or interpreting an intended action
Is Artificial Intelligence Possible?
• If computers were programmed in the
same way humans are raised, their
functional behavior might be intentional
Bill Lycan
(1945 - )
• Computers could be said to engage in
intentional (thoughtful) behavior only
if they are conscious and able to think
John Haugeland of things as meaningful or important
(1945 - )
(which they cannot do)