Essay On Computer Intelligence

Are computers more intelligent than us?

 Introduction The definition of intelligence is quite hard as there are many different aspects including it like emotional, social, logical, creative and practical. Intelligence can be described as the ability to perceive and retain information and apply it to all instances of knowledge, creating understandable modules of any size or complexity. This is also the skill that makes us humans so much different from all other living species on Earth. Due to this very general mental capability we can plan, solve problems, reason, think abstractly, think of complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience.

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. This is a major

Instead of asking “Can machines think”, Turing said we should ask: “Can machines pass a behavior test for intelligence?” Turing stated the intelligent behavior of a computer as the ability to achieve the human-level performance in cognitive tasks. In other words, a computer passes the test if interrogators cannot distinguish the machine from a human on the basis of the answers to their questions.

The imitation game proposed by Turing originally included two phases. “In phase one, the interrogator, a man and a woman are each placed in separate rooms and can communicate only via a natural medium such as a remote terminal. The interrogator’s objective is to work out who is the man and who is the woman by questioning them. The rules of the game are that the man should attempt to deceive the interrogator that he is the woman, while the woman has to convince the interrogator that she is the woman. In the second phase of the game the man is replaced by a computer programmed to deceive the interrogator as the man did. It would even be programmed to make mistakes and provide fuzzy answers in the way a human would. If the computer can fool the interrogator as often as the man did, we may say this computer has passed the intelligent behavior test”. Turing believed that by the end of the 20th century it would be possible to program a digital

After so many failed attempts to pass his game, finally the 65 year old Turing Test was passed for the very first time by the computer chatbot “Eugene Goostman”, developed by Amazon software developer Vladimir Veselov. The event was in 2014 and took place on the 60th anniversary of Turing’s death at the renowned Royal Society in London. As we already know Turing’s test measures a computer’s ability to exhibit behavior that is indistinguishable from that of a human. The chatbot passed the test by convincing more than 30 per cent of a group of human participants that it was a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. The words Turing Test have been applied to similar competitions around the world. However this event included the most simultaneous comparison test than ever before, it was independently verified and the conversations were unrestricted. Therefore this was the first official pass of Alan Turing’s test (University of