Artificial Intelligence Argument Essay

In our world, intelligence is often associated with geniuses and being smart. It is thought of as being able to obtain and understand vast amount of information. However, as technology improves and becomes more advanced, intelligence has acquired numerous meanings. Intelligence is defined as the ability to achieve goals through computational process. Although intelligence is only studied in humans, is it possible that machines may be more “intelligent” than those who created the machines in the first place?

Artificial intelligence is known as “the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it” (“Artificial Intelligence”, 2012). These so called machines usually recognize their environment and take actions that will likely be successful. After WWII many people began working on these intelligent machines. Mathematician, Alan Turing, was one of the first after giving a lecture in 1947. His theory suggested that a machine “could simulate any conceivable act of mathematical deduction (“Artificial Intelligence,” 2010).

For this test, a judge is engaged in a conversation with a human and a machine. Hypothetically, the machine is supposed to act and speak as if it were human. The judge is not reflecting how correct the machine’s answers are, but how close the answers are to the human’s answers. If the judge cannot discover the difference between the two, the machine passes the test. (“Turing Test,” 2012) Personally, I do not believe this test is valid. A machine, to me, is usually created to do something better, faster, or more efficient than a human would. That means that if a machine’s answer is more intelligent, or deeper in thought, than the human’s answer it is not intelligent according to the test. A machine should be able to have a more intelligent answer than the