Week 13 Writing Assignment

Alan Turing proposed a thought experiment to determine whether a computer is intelligent. This was also known as the "imitation game." He wanted to distinguish whether or not computers could think, having their own intelligence. The turing test is based on external awareness, and as we saw in class, professor would ask the computer a question and it would come up with an answer. He mentioned that it is like a concept in psychology where to help formulate  a new question the computer would turn it around and gather information from the question asked, then spit out a new answer. This concept is simple and easy to understand and administer. The only problems with this is that people can be fooled and depending on the question and how much sophistication it has will alter the solutions. What needs to be done is the understanding of how the human brain works. Also, it needs to make programs do specific tasks that require intelligence when performed by humans. Some other skills that the computer needs to pass the turing test are having to have a large memory, self awareness and even emotion. Computers will have to be able to identify different situations, and deal with problem solving issues. Computers need to have complex motor coordination, vivid language, vision face and object recognition, and be able to deal with learning and complex reasoning. With all this computers will be able to pass the turing test.