Phil 1010 - Turing Response PDF

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Turing Response PHIL 1010

Can machines think? Turing wanted to propose an experimental test to see if something is intelligent and gives us, in theory, a question that we can answer. To sum up The Imitation Game, there are two rooms. In one room there is a man classified as “A” and there a woman classified as “B”. In the other room there is an interrogator who is classified as “C”. The interrogators job is to decide which of the two in the other room is the man and the woman. The interrogator determines this through typewritten communication. The man’s goal is to cause the interrogator to make the incorrect identification and the woman's goal is to help the interrogator to make the correct identification. The objective is to see if the interrogator will decide incorrectly as much as a machine. While reading this piece I learned that the best strategy for the woman is to provide honest answers. The problem with this game is that it ignores the physical capacities of human beings . A computer does not have a mind which means it is not conscious or self-conscious. A computer can not create something from thoughts and emotions so it cannot be equal to a brain. Turing wanted to show that the practical account of thinking can be realized in different ways. Machines can not be nice, empathetic, beautiful, kind, take initiative, funny, fall in love, make mistakes, etc. Jefferson’s take on the machine is that no mechanism can feel pleasure at its successes or failures nor can if feel grief, be welcomed by flattery, or be angry, sad or depressed when it cannot get what it wants. Ultimately, machines do what they are programmed to do....