Unit 4

  1. Who is Alan Turing?
    • One of the first computer scientist who created the turning machine.
    • - He replaces the question: "Can machines think (or are they intelligent) with a different question.
    • - His question: "can a machine trick someone into thinking that they are human?"
  2. What is the imitation game?
    • Turing's version that used gender. (goal is to figure out how good the person is at guessing who the actual female is)
    • - Tricked people into thinking that they were the opposite sex.
    • - The interrogator is trying to figure out who is the actual female. During this game, you have a male acting like a female and an actual female acting like a female. 
    • - Then the male is replaced with a computer that acts like a female.
    • - If you replace the human with a computer then you can deem/prove its  intelligence  
  3. What was Turing’s conjecture?
    He believed that in about 50 years we'd be able to programme computers, they'd have more storage capacity, would play/pass the imitation game
  4. What is a Turing Test?
    • - A test for the presence of mind or intelligence
    • ex: blade runner - uses a test that focuses on an artificial bodies mind to see how they answer certain questions to determine if they're human or not 
    • - would ask questions that would evoke emotions that would not be present in a  computer
  5. What three features does Turing say a digital computer has? Explain what those features are.
    • 1. Store (store of information/memory)
    • 2. Executive unit (Carries out the computations or operations)
    • 3. Control (makes sure that rules are followed)
  6. Identify and explain one of the objections to Turing’s conjecture.
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