Lecture 1 - Introduction Flashcards
What are the two main themes of the definition of artificial intelligence?
Building machines that think and learn like people
Building machines that act rationally/intelligently
What was Lady Lovelace’s objection to artificial intelligence?
Computers cannot think because they can only do what we program them to do
What is Turing’s response to Lady Lovelace’s objection?
Machines could be programmed to learn
Often we cannot predict the results of our programming
What is the Turing Test?
An assessor has a text conversation with a human and computer at the same time. If he can’t deduce which the computer is it has passed and can be considered intelligent.
What is Searle’s definition of Weak AI?
Building a machine that acts as if it can think
What is Searle’s definition of Strong AI?
Building a machine that can actually think
Why do Searle’s weak and strong AIs show that the Turing test is an invalid assessment of whether a machine can think?
A computer having a conversation is just acting as if it can think. It is not actually thinking.
What was Babbage’s role in the analytical engine?
He designed to hardware and made it work
What was Lady Lovelace’s role in the analytical engine?
She wrote the programs
What does Searle’s chinese room demonstrate?
A system that behaves as if it understands something does not necessarily understand it - it is just operating on a set of rules that emulate understanding of the problem.
i.e., weak AI does not imply strong AI
