![]() ![]() ![]() The questioner must decide: which of the answers comes from Kanakadurga? If he can’t decide, and if over several such tests he consistently can’t decide, the computer passes the test. ![]() Kanakadurga, we must assume, will be human-like anyway. The computer is designed to offer as human-like answers as possible. Thus the only information available to the questioner is what shows up on the screen. The questions and answers go back and forth via a keyboard and screen. It begins with the words: “I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?,’" and it describes what’s now called the Turing Test.Ī questioner puts a series of questions, in parallel, to Kanakadurga and a computer. “Wow," we’d say incredulously, “it’s thinking!"Īlan Turing, widely considered the father of computer science and AI, made exactly this argument in a seminal 1950 paper called Computing Machinery and Intelligence. In particular, suppose we ask a computer questions we’d ask Kanakadurga, and it gives us answers that are indistinguishable from Kanakadurga’s. How will AI researchers know when a computer is thinking? Well, let’s suppose we can get it to act like your pal Kanakadurga does when she’s thinking. And that gives you an idea of what researchers have focused on, in trying to make computers think as humans do, in the discipline known as artificial intelligence (AI). ![]()
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