Turing Test

As we looked at it in class the Turing Test can calculate the "awareness" of a computer to determine whether or not a computer is intelligent. If we were to build a computer to pass this test, it would first of all need to have an enormous amount of memory. The human mind holds billions (probably more) of pieces of general knowledge. For example, the human mind knows millions of pieces of vocabulary, slang, can identify objects and so on.... Second of all the computer would need to have sensors as capable or better than what we have now as humans. It would have to be able to perceive the world around it and well as formulate what it sees around it and computer it with the general knowledge it has to make educated responses. Furthermore, another function that a computer would have to have is the ability to critically think. As we mentioned in class, computers are really great resources to punch in a number and find out the answer to an equation, however when it comes to problem solving and reasoning a human still trumps. For our computer/ robot to pass this test we would need to teach it methods and theories in problems solving. Teach it to weigh good and bad (good and bad would have to be intensely taught the computer as well which is a life long lesson for a human) as well as other factors like how difficult a task could be in comparison to other options...

To conclude our computer would have to be built by generation upon generation of computer scientists who would be constantly breaking down, analyzing, and then programming human theory into the computer. This would be nearly impossible as aspects of human theory are still being discovered to this day...