The Turing Guide

262 | 24 TURING, lOVElACE, AND BABBAGE 7000 manuscript sheets had been published, and any significant knowledge would necessaril ...

PART V Artificial intelligence and the mind ...

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CHAPTER 25 Intelligent machinery jack copeland T his chapter explains why Turing is regarded as founding father of the field of ...

266 | 25 INTEllIGENT mACHINERy fundamental technique in AI today. The difficulty Turing confronted in designing the bombe was th ...

COPElAND | 267 In 1948, with mathematician David Champernowne, Turing wrote the world’s first AI pro- gram, a heuristic chess-pl ...

268 | 25 INTEllIGENT mACHINERy the human brain, that not until computers possessed a memory capacity of around a gigabyte would ...

COPElAND | 269 ‘foil’—serves as a point of comparison. The judge has to try and figure out which of the other two participants i ...

270 | 25 INTEllIGENT mACHINERy The Turing test is extremely tough for a computer to pass. We humans find idle chit-chat across t ...

COPElAND | 271 Judge: Yet Christmas is a winter’s day, and I do not think Mr Pickwick would mind the comparison. Machine: I don’ ...

272 | 25 INTEllIGENT mACHINERy In other words, he predicted that by about 2000 a computer would be able to fool approximately 30 ...

COPElAND | 273 ‘at least 100 years’ before a computer passed his test. Shah and Warwick’s mistaken claim that Eugene Goostman pa ...

274 | 25 INTEllIGENT mACHINERy example is in fact harmless. Turing’s interest was the real computational world, and this hypo- t ...

COPElAND | 275 thought? So Searle’s Gedankenexperiment has uselessly taken us round in a circle. Far from providing a means of s ...

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CHAPTER 26 Turing’s model of the mind mark sprevak T his chapter examines Alan Turing’s contribution to the field that offers ou ...

278 | 26 TURING’S mODEl Of THE mIND A first step in this direction is to examine a piece of machinery that is usually hidden fro ...

SPREVAk | 279 Evidently, Turing thought that the tasks in AI engineering and psychology were somehow related. What did he think ...

280 | 26 TURING’S mODEl Of THE mIND brains very nearly fall into [the class of electronic computers], and there seems to be ever ...

SPREVAk | 281 Tantalizingly, Turing finished his 1951 BBC radio broadcast with:^5 The whole thinking process is still rather mys ...