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The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, which is based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. It is about the code breaking program by the British during World War II, which helped Britain to break encoded Enigma messages from the Germans. Alan Turning, the main character, is a homosexual mathematician that is in charge of the project and is portrayed as a selfish genius that builds the code breaking machine

Consciousness, so defined, begins when we wake in the morning from a dreamless sleep - and continues until we fall asleep again, die, go into a coma or otherwise become ”unconscious.” The difficulty with this definition with regards to the Turing computability of consciousness is that it defines the existence of a subjective state as a prerequisite for consciousness. According to Searle’s Chinese room argument [Searle, 1980], the fact that a system produces the same output as a conscious

important as it removes the factor of human error in driving, which in turn could decrease car crashes or potentially eliminate them. The Turing Test The Turing Test is a test in which artificial intelligence is put through rigors by humans to determine whether a computer can trick a person into thinking they are also human. It was made by a man called Alan Turing, who decided that if a computer could fool a human into

academic Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) has undergone an astonishing reappraisal. His major work on breaking Enigma Codes, his key 1936 paper On Computable Numbers (describing a theoretical machine that could solve any mathematical problem given enough time), and his early digital machines such as the programmable Pilot ACE (most notably his work at the University of Manchester between 1947 and 1954) was unquestionably used and appreciated while he still lived.1 However, Turing is competitively unusual

The Imitation Game The film, “The Imitation Game”, follows the life of Alan Turing, a homosexual mathematician, who became a war hero after breaking Enigma, an encryption device that the Germans used for communication purposes during World War II. Decoding Enigma had a major effect on World War II. In 1939, Alan Turing, and four other code breakers, Joan Clarke, Hugh Alexander, John Cairncross, and Peter Hilton were employed by the British military as cryptographers to decipher the secret messages

was originally asked by Alan Turing in 1930’s, before the time of the modern computer. Turing believed that a computer’s intelligence should be judged against a human’s intelligence by giving both the machine and an intelligent student the same set of random, rapid-fire, questions, and seeing how the computer copes. If the computer’s answers are measurable with a human’s intelligence, then we have determined that the machine can in fact think. This was deemed the Turing Test, and since then, there

Topic Briefly reconstruct John Searle's argument against the Turing Test as a measure of intelligence and discuss whether or not you agree with Searle's conclusion that algorithmic machines lack understanding. Why do you agree or disagree? Your paper should be 5 double spaced pages with no more than 12-point type. Requirements: 2 citations max: Searle and Turing Backup every statement! Say if I agree or not right off the bat, this isn’t a joke, don’t leave a hanging punchline First-person Writing

In Minds, Brains, and Programs John Searle objects to Computational Theory of Mind (CTM), particularly that running a program on a computer and manipulating symbols does not mean that the computer has understanding, or more generally a mind. In this paper I will first explain Searle’s Chinese Room, then I will explain CTM and how it relates to the Chinese Room. Following this I will describe how the Chinese Room attacks the CTM. Next I will explain the Systems Reply to the Chinese Room and how

The term technology means the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes mainly in an industry. The term Innovation is the introduction of something new. When combining these two terms together as one it is defined as an accord of new products and processes that hold significant technological changes of products and processes. This is when an innovation has been implemented if it has been introduced on the market. Technology has such a tremendous impact on today’s society because

Life is just like the ocean, whatever choice you make as a steersman, you must be well aware of your favorite, that is, it is worthy of pursuing in your whole lifetime. My high school physics teacher influenced me a lot in life choices. First of all, I have cultivated great interest in physics from junior high school. It has been my most favorite subject. As a result, my physics grades have been the best among my batch. During my high school studies, I took part in the High School Student’s Olympic