NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Vernor Vinge, Technological Singularity, Ray Kurzweil
9 Sep 2016
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Nats 1700 lecture 15: will artificial intelligence (ai) ever replace human intelligence: early ai debates. Ai took off in the 1940s and 1950s as computer scientists and researchers questioned whether it was possible to construct a machine capable of having human-level intelligence. Baum et al. (2010): over time, it became clear that there was vast difference between general intelligence and task specific ai capabilities. Turing test: can a computer fool a person into believing they are indistinguishable from a human? (an imitation game ) if they do so 30% of the time, you have achieved threshold of an intelligent machine. An interrogator converses with a machine and human for a period of time using keyboard/monitor communications if he or she cannot tell the difference between the machine and the person, must credit computer with human intelligence. Turing"s 1950 paper can a machine think? predicted it would take about 50 years before computers could fool humans at his 30% threshold rate.
