NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Weak Ai, Turing Test, Joseph Weizenbaum
31 Mar 2016
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The term was first coined by john mccarthy in 1956 when he proposed that human intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to stimulate it. He now defines a. i as the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. Attempting to use computers to stimulate human mental processes. Example: an expert might ask people to describe how they solve a problem and attempt to capture their answers in a software model. Designing intelligent machine independent of the way people think. According to this approach, human intelligence is just once possible kind of intelligence. Machines can be made to act as if they were intelligent: this has already started to happen, for example, speech recognition software, translation software. Machines that act intelligently have real, conscious minds on a level at least equal to humans: this has not happened yet, and some say, it never will.
