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What Does It Mean To Be Artificially Intelligent?

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Two words that we all think we know fairly well are the words ‘artificial’ and ‘intelligence’. When asked, people will suggest that ‘artificial’ can be defined as fake, phony, not real, or made-up. When asked what ‘intelligence’ means, people will suggest the word being defined as smart, having knowledge, or being capable of certain or many tasks. Though when these words are brought together, it becomes unclear as to what these words mean, and what it means for something to be “artificially intelligent.” In my research, I have found that the best definition in my opinion and probably the most agreed upon definition of what it means to be “artificially intelligent” is this: A machine that, when involved in the Turing Test, can pass as human, and is capable of the following: natural language processing, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and machine learning (Russell and Norvig). Now, with this definition in mind, we can focus on some of the questions and philosophical issues that come up with the topic of artificial intelligence. …show more content…

The first part of this definition is that the machine needs to pass as human in a test called the Turing Test. This test was created by Alan Turing in the 1950’s to test to see if a computer could pass as a human. A computer would be in one room and a human in another. There would also be a person that would ask questions to the human and computer and they would respond with a message that would be brought back and forth by a messenger. If the person asking the questions could ultimately not tell if the responses were from a computer or human, the computer would pass the Turing Test. So far, no computer has passed the Turing

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