PSYCH 120A Lecture 1: Psych 120A - Lecture 1
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Using pattern classification to decode brain activity corresponding to shape representations. Alan turing wanted to answer the question, can machines think? . They created and test and said that if something can pass the test, it"s thinking for all intents and purposes. The turing test is an interactive proof of intelligence. We don"t actually need a definition, just a demonstration / task. The test had a human interrogator typing into a computer, and the responses were either coming from a human or an ai system and the human interrogator had to determine which it was coming from. Block: the capacity to emit sensible responses is not sufficient for intelligence . Claimed that the decision of whether behavior is intelligent behavior is in part a matter of how it is produced. Even if a system has the actual and potential behavior characteristics of an intelligent being, if its internal processes are like those of the machine described,
