October 31, 2017
Tuesday of Week 11
Topic of the day
- Nature of intelligence
Suggested readings
- Section 17.1 from George Luger, Artificial Intelligence, 5e
- Section 16.1 from George Luger, Artificial Intelligence, 6e
Online references
- Turing test (en.wikipedia.org)
- Chinese room (en.wikipedia.org)
- ELIZA (en.wikipedia.org)
- Turing, A.M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59, 433-460. (www.loebner.net)
Questions and exercises
- What did Turing think of the question "Can machines think?"? What did he identify as a better question to ask (and how did he answer it)?
Assignments
Today
- Homework 4 revision due
Upcoming
- Project 3: A* due (2 Nov)
- Project 4: Database out (2 Nov)
- Homework 5 out (2 Nov)
- Homework 5 due (7 Nov)