Transcription of Alan Turing: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
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Can (non-human) machines think?Alan Turing: computing Machinery and intelligence What is a computer? A person who makes calculations or computations; a calculator, a reckoner; person employed to make calculations in an observatory, in surveying, etc. Now chiefly hist. [OED] ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (1946) was the world s first electronic Turing complete computer. [Wiki]Logic Gate: A Simple Computer More Gates, Smaller Package30 years: 250,000 times more RAM1985:Kaypro: 64 KB RAM2015:Mac: 16 GB RAMC ould Computers Think? What is thinking? Turing means more than mere calculating. What kindsof things can think? Human beings? Non-human animals? Computers? How can we tellif something can think? How do I know if you are a thinking thing? How do I knowthat youare conscious?Turing: The realquestion concerns how it is that we can tellif something is thinking.
What is a “computer?” •“A person who makes calculations or computations; a calculator, a reckoner; spec.a person employed to make calculations in an observatory, in surveying,
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