Lab Class 1. Introduction to Cognition

Question 1

What did Turing’s work inspire?

Answer 1

Work in Artificial Intelligence

Question 2

What is the Turing Test?

Answer 2

A human interrogator attempts to distinguish between the (text based) responses of a computer and a human to their (text based) questions.

Question 3

For a machine to pass the turing test, it would need to:

1.____ all of the knowledge a human has acquired over a lifetime and it would need to have a procedure for matching any text input with an
2____ 3_____ 4_____

Answer 3

1. Encode all of the knowledge a human has acquired over a lifetime and it would need to have a procedure for matching any text input with an appropriate stored response.

Question 4

The turing test prompts what kind of question about how know could be ___1.___ and ___2.___

Which one of these was turing interested in?

Answer 4

1. Acquired
2. Stored

Turing was interested in how knowledge could be acquired.

Question 5

What was Turing’s specific definition of thinking?

What type of competence did he find important?

Answer 5

If an artificial intelligence can satisfy us of its linguistic competence, then this would be a very good indication that the machine has a mind