The Turing Test
Philosopher John Searle talks about the Turing test, based on a paper written by Alan Turing in 1950, in which a test was devised to measure whether a computer could simulate the working of a human brain.
Subject: mental
Transcript: years ago, And the idea was that you could tell whether Or not a system had real, mental capacities by asking whether Or not it could fool an expert. So
The Chinese Room Argument
Philosopher John Searle goes through the "Chinese room argument" to prove that no matter how powerful computers are, they aren't minds. Professor Searle explains that while the computer can very rapidly manipulate formal, syntactical objects (such a...
Subject: mental
Transcript: which is supposed to be the program Of a mind executing a certain kind of mental capacity And pick it for something that you don't understand. I don