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- Title
Can Humans Think?
- Authors
Hummel, Robert
- Abstract
His seminal paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," led to the introduction of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Alan Turing did not answer his own question, although he speculated that by the year 2000, machines would have passed his test for what he believed would constitute thinking, which became known as "the Turing test." But can a machine really think, or is it somehow artificial? If a machine can convince humans that it can think, then can humans really think?Allegedly, a few examples exist of programs that pass the Turing test, but in the end, the arguments that the machines are thinking are not convincing. To put it mildly, the intelligence of the machines clearly remains artificial. Notwithstanding, AI has made significant progress and has been useful in a number of important applications. But the issue of whether artificial intelligence can actually attain "thinking" remains open. This article is about whether thinking is a reasonable goal of AI.
- Subjects
ARTIFICIAL intelligence; TURING, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954
- Publication
STEPS: Science, Technology, Engineering & Policy Studies, 2021, Issue 5, p36
- ISSN
2333-3219
- Publication type
Article