Computing Machinery and Intelligence

In Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Turing mentioned how or is it possible to have thinking machines? He argued from a point of view of suppose there are three separate individual: man or women, and the third being a moderator in order to guess who are the other two individual men or women? The function of the moderator is actually the thinking machines. The Imitation Game is what he would call such process.

He proposed a machine which is called Digital computer which would follow the human computer which followed the fixed rules. The process that Turing mentioned in his paper can be seen now a day, in messaging. It was not possible during this period however it is Turing’s thoughts and ideas that brought forth this possibility.

He also presented view that is contrary to these ideas. There are 6 views which he mentioned. Theological objection, Heads in the Sand, Mathematical Objection, Argument from consciousness, Argument from Various Disabilities, and Lady Lovelace’s Objection. In “Argument from Consciousness” Professor Jefferson expressed in Lister Oration not unless a machine can write a sonnet can we equate a machine with brain. This brought forth many interesting questions. A machine can only do what is being input. To program a machine to think, do, and feel like human we will never have such machine. The closest is robot being program to do specific tasks. But those are discrete task not a continuous task as would human can. A robot can be program to do multiple tasks but not the entire task human can. I thought this was interesting and indeed such a machine is yet to be seen in reality. Even if there is such machine (artificial intelligence) it does not contain soul which define human. Nevertheless, it is useful to have such machine to enhance human life and to make our life a bit more convenience.