Wednesday, April 27

Although it seems like a weird test to conduct, it seems like the Turing test is a legitimate way to test a machine's intelligence. Since it is a human that is conducting the test and the human is comparing the conversation with the other human to the conversation with the computer it would make sense that it would be a good way to test the computer's intelligence. Some tasks that humans do better than computers are tasks that consist of intellectual reasoning, such as writing essays and making artwork based on emotion. Some tasks a computer can do better than humans are factual things such as solving math equation immediately and state facts about a specific subject. A characteristic that distinguishes these two lists is the fact that the human has the ability to think and judge when the computer only does what it is programmed to do.