PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: John Searle, Weak Ai
1 Dec 2016
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Chapter 8: language and thought (continued from last class) Yes: an algorithm is a set of instructions. A computer program, a recipe for making cookies, any kind of task that we can sum up into a set of well-defined instructions are algorithms: alan turing was a famous mathematician and code-breaker. In 1936 he proposed an idea that we could build a machine that could follow an algorithm that we could use to stimulate the logic of a computer. We can build a complicated and detailed algorithm to fool a person who speaks the language. The computer using the algorithm can produce the correct output, a human using the algorithm can do this too. General agreement is that the answer is no: the weak ai argument the program is useful and powerful tool to help us understand what is going on in the mind.
