Linked by Jitesh Dundas on Wed 23rd Sep 2009 08:00 UTC
Can computers win the Turing Test? Imagine a day when a machine will say, "Move over Turing! You can no longer consider machines to be less smart than humans! After all, we can think too. We do all the thinking and processing and you take all the credit, just because you are our creator! ". That would be an awkward and exciting situation. To be honest, there is a valid argument here in this imaginary conversation. As naive as it may sound for now, let me assure you that such a scenario is not far away. Applications are becoming more and more logic-oriented and increasingly intelligent.
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What is intelligence? Everybody knows and they all disagree, so let me summarize: the word intelligence actually means me-likeness. If you look and do like me, then you're an intelligent person. Nothing wrong with that, but it is a cultural phenomena, not technical and you can not emulate it with switching (logic).
I do not claim that machine that completely emulates us can not be built, we are the living proofs. But to make it by ourselves, never mind how contradictory it sounds, the knowledge of how we work is needed - not only model of brains and interaction but model of human as a cultural being. Society at the moment goes into the wrong direction but this theory will never be built anyway. Still if you imagine one, you will have no problem seeing how it satisfies the incompleteness theorem.
One problem though: machine that beats you in a gun fight is already built... Those damn cultural and exsistentional details