PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Parallel Computing, Weak Ai, Intentionality
1 Dec 2016
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Used grounding to look at physical objects to relate world to language. Algorithm set of well defined, finite instructions to accomplish a task. Alan turing proposed a hypothetical (at the time) machine that would follow an algorithm to accomplish a task (turing machine), including the brain. Church-turing theory - anything that can be given a precise enough characterization as a set of steps can be simulated on a digital computer. Searle proposed the chinese room argument: wanted to build a machine to have a conversation in chinese (an elaborate. Turing machine: a lot of if-else statements (if someone says this, say that, called room argument because he tested machine with real chinese speaker, if they thought it was a real person it was good. Machine duplicates syntax (structure) not semantics (meaning) We can replicate syntax/logic of mind but not meaning of mind. Sides of debate is weak ai and strong ai.
