What is the Turing test? If a computer were to pass the Turing test, how would proponents of strong artificial intelligence and weak artificial intelligence interpret the computer’s performance?
What will be an ideal response?
The Turing test is an “imitation game” in which an interrogator asks written questions
to both a fellow human being and a computer. If the interrogator cannot tell which of
his or her interlocutors is a computer, then the computer passes the Turing test and is
said to think. If a computer passes the Turing test, proponents of strong artificial
intelligence argue that an appropriately programmed computer is a mind capable of
understanding and having mental states—in other words, computers can duplicate
human cognitive processes, not just simulate them. For proponents of weak artificial
intelligence, in contrast, even if a computer passes the Turing test, it is only simulating
human mental attributes—for this camp, computers are a tool used to study the mind
but cannot duplicate human cognitive processes.
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