ATS1835 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Weak Ai, Turing Machine, Intentionality
24 Mar 2020
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Functionalism says that mental states are characterised by their functional role, or the set of caudal links they have with sensory input, other mental states and behavioural output: hypothesis: if functionalism is true and mental operations are computational. If this hypothesis is true then a turing machine could have a mind. Is still a live hypothesis: winograd schema challenge shows we have yet not developed anything that has a mind - there is nothing that can pass it yet. "it is impossible for digital computers to understand language or think. Searse is the analogue of a computer, performs computational operations on formally specified elements: you are just producing outputs on what the information you have. Searle introduced the terms "weak ai" and "strong ai: weak ai: computers are a powerful tool in the study of mind. Strong ai: an appropriately programmed computer is a mind and literally has cognitive states such as understanding; machine programs literally explain human understanding.
